Abstract: Provided is a carbon material that is large in specific surface area, and moreover, capable of easily forming an electrode film even when any binder is substantially not contained. Provided is a carbon material that has a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or more, with the weight of the carbon material remaining on a sieve after shaking being 90% by weight or more with respect to 100% by weight of the carbon material put in the sieve, when 0.2 g of the carbon material packed in a cylindrical syringe of 2 cm in diameter is compressed at a pressure of 16 kN, the whole of the compressed carbon material is taken out from the syringe and put in the sieve with an aperture of 4.75 mm, and the sieve is shaken for 1 minute.

Abstract: An anomaly determination device, an anomaly determination method, and a memory medium for a water pump are provided. An acquisition process acquires an input variable of a map from image data obtained by capturing an outer surface of the water pump. Execution circuitry obtains provisional determination results from maps, respectively. The provisional determination results are respectively obtained by executing the provisional determination processes for output variables output from the maps. A determination finalizing process treats, as a majority of the provisional determination results, a final determination result indicating whether coolant has leaked out of the water pump.

Abstract: Provided is a power storage device having excellent withstand voltage performance and enabling high-voltage driving. This power storage device includes: an electrode formed of an electrode material containing a carbon material and essentially free of a binder; and an electrolytic solution including an ionic liquid including, as components, a cation and an anion.

Abstract: Provided is a composite material in which a carbon material and nanoparticles are efficiently combined to enhance the battery characteristic of a secondary battery. The composite material including a carbon material having a plurality of recesses and a plurality of protrusions and including nanoparticles that are at least partially combined with the carbon material, the composite material having a rate of the nanoparticles combined in the carbon material and the nanoparticles of 11% by weight or more.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon material, which can increase the capacitance in an electrical storage device. Provided is a carbon material including a carbon material that has a graphene laminated structure, where the carbon material has a BET specific surface area of 240 m2/g or more, and has a powder density of 0.5 g/cc or more when 0.1 g of the carbon material is put in a container with a cross-sectional area of 3.14 cm2 and compressed at a pressure of 16 kN.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon material that is large in specific surface area, and moreover, capable of easily forming an electrode film even when any binder is substantially not contained. Provided is a carbon material that has a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or more, with the weight of the carbon material remaining on a sieve after shaking being 90% by weight or more with respect to 100% by weight of the carbon material put in the sieve, when 0.2 g of the carbon material packed in a cylindrical syringe of 2 cm in diameter is compressed at a pressure of 16 kN, the whole of the compressed carbon material is taken out from the syringe and put in the sieve with an aperture of 4.75 mm, and the sieve is shaken for 1 minute.

Abstract: To provide a carbon material that can enhance capacity and rate characteristics of an electricity storage device. A carbon material containing a carbon material having a graphene layered structure, the carbon material having a mesopore, the mesopore having a volume measured in accordance with BJH method of 0.04 mL/g or more, and the carbon material having a BET specific surface area of 240 m2/g or more.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode material for electricity storage devices, which enables suppression of heat generation in charge and discharge at large currents. The electrode material for electricity storage devices comprises a first carbon material having a graphite structure wherein graphite is partially exfoliated, and a second carbon material different from the first carbon material, wherein the ratio A/B, where A represents a weight of the first carbon material and B represents a weight of the second carbon material, is within the range of 0.01 or higher and 100 or lower.

Abstract: Provided is a composite body capable of increasing the capacity of an electricity storage device and improving rate characteristics. The composite body includes a carbon material having a graphene layered structure and fine particles, the composite body has mesopores, a volume of the mesopores measured according to the BJH method is 0.15 mL/g or more, and a BET specific surface area of the composite body is 900 m2/g or more.

Abstract: Provided is a carbonaceous material capable of enhancing the initial charge and discharge efficiency and the cycle characteristics of lithium ion secondary batteries. The carbonaceous material is used as an electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery and has a volume resistivity of 0.7 ?·cm or less as measured at a pressure of 13 MPa in the form of a mixture of 5 wt % of the carbonaceous material and 95 wt % of lithium cobaltate.

Abstract: A synthetic resin bottle prevents a trunk from undergoing unsightly deformation in response to reduced pressure inside the bottle and also increases flexibility in terms of container design and secures a label attachment area sufficiently. A synthetic resin bottle includes a mouth, a trunk, and a bottom, with a reduced pressure absorbing region configured to be displaced toward the inside of the bottle in response to reduced pressure inside the bottle. The trunk includes a cylindrical-shaped straight region, which has a length of not less than 100 mm in an axis direction extending along a center axis of the trunk and in which no irregularities are provided. The straight region has a weight of not less than 11 times a weight of the reduced pressure absorbing region.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode material for electricity storage devices, which enables suppression of heat generation in charge and discharge at large currents. The electrode material for electricity storage devices comprises a first carbon material having a graphite structure wherein graphite is partially exfoliated, and a second carbon material different from the first carbon material, wherein the ratio A/B, where A represents a weight of the first carbon material and B represents a weight of the second carbon material, is within the range of 0.01 or higher and 100 or lower.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a hydraulic fluid tank having a breather valve, and a breather hose attached to the breather valve. The breather hose has a first flowpath joined to the breather valve and a second flowpath and a third flowpath branching off from the first flowpath. The second flowpath has an extension direction that is different from the first flowpath. The second flowpath has an open end, and the third flowpath has a closed end.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a verification system includes a first replacement member and an image processing apparatus. The first replacement member is a replacement member of an image processing apparatus, detachably attached to the image processing apparatus, and provided with a machine-readable code. The image processing apparatus reads the code placed on the reading surface, transmits the read code image data or the like to a predetermined transmission destination in advance, and receives, from the transmission destination, the verification result of whether the data coincides with first information uniquely identifying the replacement member and registered in advance. The image processing apparatus permits an operation using the first replacement member when the verification result is positive and prohibits the operation using the first replacement member when the verification result is negative.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a random-structure GIC in which exfoliated graphite having a low regularity of a graphene stacked state and a small number of stacked graphene layers can be easily obtained by exfoliation treatment. The method includes the steps of providing an alkali metal-GIC having an alkali metal intercalated between graphene layers and bringing a polar protic solvent into contact with the alkali metal-GIC in a non-oxidizing atmosphere.

Abstract: Provided is a carbonaceous material capable of enhancing the initial charge and discharge efficiency and the cycle characteristics of lithium ion secondary batteries. The carbonaceous material is used as an electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery and has a volume resistivity of 0.7 ?·cm or less as measured at a pressure of 13 MPa in the form of a mixture of 5 wt % of the carbonaceous material and 95 wt % of lithium cobaltate.

Abstract: Provided is a production method which can attain exfoliating treatment of graphite and a process of grafting a polymer onto exfoliated graphite simultaneously and thus makes it possible to easily obtain an exfoliated graphite-polymer composite material in a short time. A method for producing an exfoliated graphite-polymer composite material includes a step of mixing graphite or primary exfoliated graphite, a depolymerizable monomer of which the polymer is decomposed by heating to generate radicals and also to form a monomer or an oligomer, or the polymer A of the monomer, or a polymer B which forms radicals at a temperature close to its decomposition temperature to obtain a mixture; and a heating step of putting the mixture in a non-open container to heat the mixture to a first temperature range from the ceiling temperature or higher to the onset decomposition temperature or lower, or to a temperature higher than the first temperature range.

Abstract: A synthetic resin bottle prevents a trunk from undergoing unsightly deformation in response to reduced pressure inside the bottle and also increases flexibility in terms of container design and secures a label attachment area sufficiently. A synthetic resin bottle includes a mouth, a trunk, and a bottom, with a reduced pressure absorbing region configured to be displaced toward the inside of the bottle in response to reduced pressure inside the bottle. The trunk includes a cylindrical-shaped straight region, which has a length of not less than 100 mm in an axis direction extending along a center axis of the trunk and in which no irregularities are provided. The straight region has a weight of not less than 11 times a weight of the reduced pressure absorbing region.

Abstract: Providing a modified-graphene-like carbon material into which hydroxyl groups are introduced. By reacting a graphene-like carbon material with hydrogen peroxide, a hydroxyl group is introduced into the graphene-like carbon material.

Abstract: Provided are a functional-group-modified carbon material modified with an isocyanate group or amino group, and a method for producing the material. The material is an isocyanate-group-modified carbon material in which an isocyanate group of a diisocyanate compound is bonded to a graphene-like carbon material, or an amino-group-modified carbon material in which a fragment obtained by radical-decomposing an amino-group-containing azo-type radical initiator is added to the graphene-like carbon material by radical-trapping. The method is a method for producing a functional-group-modified carbon material, including heating and stirring, in a solvent, a graphene-like carbon material, and a diisocyanate compound or an amino-group-containing azo-type radical initiator.