Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a rear wall, a front wall, and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a tape included at least partially within the housing and configured to be fed along a tape feed path extending to the tape feed exit, and a first indicator aperture positioned on the front wall and a second indicator aperture position on a rear portion of the bottom surface. A position of the first indicator aperture on the front wall indicates a type of the tape included within the housing. A position of the second indicator aperture indicates a color of characters.

Abstract: A braided part connection structure includes a braided part having a tubular shape covering an insulated wire along a longitudinal direction of the braided part connection structure and a shield member having a tubular shape and electrically connected and fixed to the braided part. The shield member includes a braided part joining portion having a plurality of openings arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction of the shield member in a portion of the shield member in the longitudinal direction, and a welding portion defined by two openings adjacent to each other of the plurality of openings. The braided part covers the braided part joining portion and is welded to the welding portion.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

Abstract: A conductive ink composition for screen printing contains a conductive metal particle (A) having an oleic acid surfactant, a non-chlorine-based resin composition (B), and an organic solvent (C), wherein the conductive metal particle (A) is contained in an amount of 45 to 70% by weight with respect to the total ink composition, the non-chlorine-based resin composition (B) has a number average molecular weight of 50,000 or more and is contained in an amount of 5 to 15% by weight with respect to the total ink composition, the organic solvent (C) has a flash point of 75 to 110° C. and is contained in an amount of 25 to 50% by weight with respect to the total ink composition, and the ink composition has an ink viscosity of 10 to 25 Pa·s (23° C.) at a shear rate of 100 s?1.

Abstract: A transmission system includes a calculation unit 251 that calculates a jitter pattern sequence of a plurality of packets transmitted by a transmission device 1 via a network using a transmission interval of the plurality of packets and a difference between arrival times at which the packets arrive at a reception device 2, a generation unit 252 that inputs the jitter pattern sequence to a first learning model 254 to generate a state index indicating a state of the network, and a buffer estimation unit 26 that determines a buffer size of a reception buffer 23 of the reception device 2 based on the state index.

Abstract: A bus bar includes members made from a conductive material and consecutively arranged to form a plate shape defining a wiring pathway. The members adjacent to each other have connection surfaces at which the members adjacent to each other are connected to each other by laser joining. The members adjacent to each other include at least one tolerance buffer between the members adjacent to each other. In the at least one tolerance buffer, the connection surfaces of the members adjacent to each other have different widths.

Abstract: Negative electrode active material particles of the present disclosure are Si particles with pores inside primary particles and having a clathrate type crystalline phase, and satisfying the following relationship: 0.061?V/W. Here, V is a volume of pores having a pore diameter of 10 nm or less and W is a half width of a peak at 2?=31.72°±0.50° in an X-ray diffraction test using CuK?.

Abstract: The main object of the disclosure is to provide electrode active material Si particles that can inhibit fluctuation in constraining pressure of a battery during charge-discharge. The electrode active material Si particles have clathrate-type Si and diamond-type Si in the same particles. The electrode active material Si particles preferably comprise diamond-type Si at an area % of 0.05 to 11.00 with respect to the entire electrode active material Si particles. Preferably, the clathrate-type Si at least partially has a clathrate type II structure. The electrode active material Si particles preferably have a porous structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides primarily a negative electrode active material with reduced volume change during charge-discharge. The negative electrode active material of the disclosure consists of clathrate-type Si particles comprising one or more metals selected from the group consisting of Mo, Fe, Zn, Mg, Pd, Zr, Ag, Co, Cr, Nb and V. A negative electrode active material layer according to the disclosure comprises the negative electrode active material of the disclosure, and a lithium-ion battery of the disclosure comprises the negative electrode active material layer of the disclosure.

Abstract: A negative electrode body of the present disclosure is a negative electrode body for a lithium ion battery having a negative electrode current collector layer and a negative electrode active material layer, wherein the negative electrode active material layer contains Si particles having a clathrate type structure as a negative electrode active material, wherein the negative electrode active material layer contains 0.850 mass % to 5.000 mass % of Al with respect to a mass of the negative electrode active material layer, and wherein the Si particles contain 0.040 mass % to 0.250 mass % of Al with respect to a mass of the Si particles.

Abstract: A connection structure of a press-clamping terminal and a cable has: a cable that has a core wire and an insulation sheath that covers the core wire; a press-clamping terminal that is press-clamped to the core wire exposed from the insulation sheath at a terminal of the cable; and a cut portion that has a cross section formed in a semicircular shape and is formed in a press-clamping direction in the exposed core wire.

Abstract: A connection structure of a bus bar and a cable has: a bus bar that serves as an external terminal; a cable that has a core wire exposed from an insulation sheath at a terminal, the core wire being joined with the bus bar; a protective member that covers at least a joining portion of the bus bar and the core wire of the cable; and a cut portion that is formed in the core wire at the joining portion with the bus bar.

Abstract: A connecter terminal structure includes: a male housing of a male connecter; a male terminal accommodated in the male housing and including a first electrical contact portion; a stepped shaft portion formed at a tip end of the first electrical contact portion; a hood portion surrounding the first electrical contact portion; an annular terminal spring externally fitted to the stepped shaft portion; and an insulating cap fixed to a tip end of the stepped shaft portion and configured to hold the annular terminal spring. The connecter terminal structure further includes: a female housing of a female connecter; a female terminal accommodating portion configured to be fitted into the hood portion; and a female terminal accommodated in the female terminal accommodating portion and including a second electrical contact portion having a tubular shape to allow the first electrical contact portion to be inserted therein.

Abstract: A new silicon material is provided. A negative electrode active material including an Al- and O-containing silicon material, the Al- and O-containing silicon material being configured such that a mass % of Al (WAl %) satisfies 0<WAl<1, and a peak indicating Al—O bond is observed in a range of 1565 to 1570 eV in an X-ray absorption fine structure measurement for a K shell of Al.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing, a terminal, and an electric wire line. The housing is fittable to a mating housing that houses a mating terminal. The terminal is housed in the housing, and includes a tubular electric connection portion into which the mating terminal is inserted. The electric wire line includes at least a terminal end portion housed in the housing, and is electrically connected to the terminal. In the connector, the electric connection portion houses a multi-contact coil spring that is formed to have an elastically-deformable annular shape, is electrically connected to the electric connection portion, and is brought into contact at a plurality positions with the mating terminal inserted thereinto, and the terminal and at least the terminal end portion of the electric wire line are insert-molded in the housing.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate II type crystal phase, including a void inside a primary particle, and a void amount A of the void with a fine pore diameter of 100 nm or less is more than 0.15 cc/g and 0.40 cc/g or less.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a negative electrode active material includes: an alloying step of causing an Na source and an Si source to react to produce an Na—Si alloy containing Na and Si; and a silicon clathrate production step of heating the Na—Si alloy and reducing an amount of Na in the Na—Si alloy to produce a type-II silicon clathrate. Porous Si with a BET specific surface area of 20 m2/g or more is used as the Si source.

Abstract: A connector includes a terminal, an electric wire, and a housing having a tubular portion that accommodates the terminal and the electric wire therein. An electric wire connection portion and a terminal connection portion are provided on both end sides of the terminal. The electric wire connection portion is connected to the electric wire. A joining portion between an end surface of the electric wire connection portion and an end surface of the electric wire includes a protruding piece protruding in a radial direction of the electric wire connection portion. A first retaining piece and a second retaining piece configured to be locked to the protruding piece are provided on an inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion. The second retaining piece is disposed at a position shifted from the first retaining piece in both a circumferential direction and an axial direction of the tubular portion.

Abstract: A terminal is to be connected to a mating terminal having a flat surface portion. The terminal includes a conductive main body having an abutment surface, an annular terminal spring, the annular terminal spring being held on the abutment surface and a fastener holding the annular terminal spring on the abutment surface. The fastener includes a main body shaft being inserted into a central space of the annular terminal spring, a first end of the main body shaft being fixed to the conductive main body, and a plurality of arm portions extending outward in a radial direction of the fastener from a second end of the main body shaft, the second end being opposite to the first end, the plurality of arm portions being configured to hold the annular terminal spring at a contacting portion of the annular terminal spring, the contacting portion contacting the abutment surface.