Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes a second control device that is communicable with a first control device that controls a first system including a first air-conditioning device by first communication using a first communication protocol, to control a second system including a second air-conditioning device by second communication using a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, in which the second control device is communicable with the first control device by third communication using an XML communication protocol, acquires first control information from the first control device by the third communication, the first control information being used for controlling the first system, creates second control information based on the first control information acquired by the third communication, the second control information causing the second system to execute control corresponding to control of the first system.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a non-aqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery capable of suppressing increase of initial resistance when an isocyanate group-containing compound is added to a non-aqueous electrolytic solution. The non-aqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure has: a wound type electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound with a separator interposed therebetween; and a battery case for housing the wound type electrode body and the non-aqueous electrolytic solution. The relation between a nitrogen element concentration A1 derived from an isocyanate group-containing compound in an outermost circumferential surface 2a of the wound type electrode body, and a nitrogen element concentration B derived from an isocyanate group-containing compound in an inner region located further in than the outermost circumferential surface of the wound type electrode body, satisfies A1>B.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution; the negative electrode comprises a negative electrode collector and a negative electrode active material layer that is provided on the negative electrode collector; the negative electrode active material layer contains, as negative electrode active materials, graphite particles A and graphite particles B; the graphite particles A have an internal void fraction of 5% or less; the graphite particles B have an internal void fraction of from 8% to 20%; if the negative electrode active material layer is halved in the thickness direction, a region on the half closer to the outer surface contains more graphite particles A than a region on the half closer to the negative electrode collector.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that is an aspect of the present disclosure comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution. The negative electrode comprises a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode active material layer contains graphite particles A and graphite particles B as negative electrode active materials. The graphite particles A have an internal void ratio of 5% or less. The graphite particles B have an internal void ratio of 8-20%. When the negative electrode active material layer is divided in half in the thickness direction, the region of the half to the side of the outer surface contains more graphite particles A than the region of the half to the side of the negative electrode current collector.

Abstract: The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell according to an embodiment of the present disclosure has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution. The negative electrode has a negative electrode collector and a negative electrode active material layer provided on the negative electrode collector. The negative electrode active material layer contains graphite particles A and graphite particles B as negative electrode active materials. The graphite particles A have an internal void rate of 5% or below. The graphite particles B have an internal void rate of 8 to 20%. When the negative electrode active material layer is halved in the thickness direction, a region on the half closer to the outer surface contains more graphite particles A than a region on the half closer to the negative electrode collector.

Abstract: Disclosed is an additive for nonaqueous electrolyte solutions, which includes a compound represented by the following formula (1): in the formula (1), Q represents an optionally substituted alkenylene group having 4 to 7 carbon atoms and forming a cyclic group together with the sulfur atom of the sulfonyl group, X represents a sulfonyl group, a phosphoryl group, or a carbonyl group, R1 represents an optionally substituted alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or the like, and n represents 1 or 2.

Abstract: Disclosed is an additive for nonaqueous electrolyte solutions, including a first compound represented by the formula (1), and at least one second compound selected from the group consisting of an ethylene carbonate compound, a vinyl ethylene carbonate compound, a cyclic sulfonic acid ester compound, and a cyclic disulfonic acid ester compound, in the formula (1), X represents a sulfonyl group or a carbonyl group, and R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and optionally substituted with a halogen atom or the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is an additive for nonaqueous electrolyte solutions, including a compound represented by Formula (1a) or (1b). In Formulae (1a) and (1b), Z represents a monovalent group represented by Formula (2a), (2b), or (2c).

Abstract: Disclosed is an additive for a nonaqueous electrolyte solution, including a compound represented by the following formula (1): in formula (1), X represents a sulfonyl group or a carbonyl group, R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, which may be substituted with a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, or the like, and R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, which may be substituted with a halogen atom.

Abstract: A controller of an indoor unit included in an air-conditioning system determines whether or not a communication error with the outdoor unit is an energization error that only occurs during an energization time in which electric power is fed from a commercial power supply to the outdoor unit. The controller can also determine whether or not the communication error is a connection establishment error that occurs at a time of establishing a connection with the outdoor unit. Based on determining the cause of the communication error with the outdoor unit, the controller can drive a fan by electric power fed from an emergency power supply.

Abstract: Disclosed is an additive for nonaqueous electrolyte solutions, including a first compound represented by the formula (1), and at least one second compound selected from the group consisting of an ethylene carbonate compound, a vinyl ethylene carbonate compound, a cyclic sulfonic acid ester compound, and a cyclic disulfonic acid ester compound, in the formula (1), X represents a sulfonyl group or a carbonyl group, and R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and optionally substituted with a halogen atom or the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is an additive for nonaqueous electrolyte solutions, which includes a compound represented by the following formula (1): in the formula (1), Q represents an optionally substituted alkenylene group having 4 to 7 carbon atoms and forming a cyclic group together with the sulfur atom of the sulfonyl group, X represents a sulfonyl group, a phosphoryl group, or a carbonyl group, R1 represents an optionally substituted alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or the like, and n represents 1 or 2.

Abstract: An additive for a non-aqueous electrolyte solution including a compound represented by the following formula (A1) or (A2). In the formula, Xa represents a group that forms a cyclic group together with a nitrogen atom, Za1 and Za2, Za1 and Za2 each independently represent a sulfonyl or carbonyl group, Ra1 represents an optionally substituted alkylene group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkenylene group of 3 or 4 carbon atoms or an alkynylene group of 3 or 4 carbon atoms, Ra2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, Ra3 represents oxygen or an optionally substituted alkylene group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, alkenylene group of 3 or 4 carbon atoms or alkynylene group of 3 or 4 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A controller of an indoor unit included in an air-conditioning system includes a power applied time error determination unit that, when a communication error occurs in communication with an outdoor unit, determines whether or not the communication error is a power applied time error peculiar to a power applied time when electric power is fed from a commercial power supply to the outdoor unit, a connection establishment error determination unit that, when the power applied time error determination unit determines that the communication error is not the power applied time error, determines whether or not the communication error is a connection establishment error that occurs at a time of establishing a connection with the outdoor unit, to detect power failure in the outdoor unit, and a fan control unit that, when the connection establishment error determination unit determines that the communication error is the connection establishment error, drives a fan by electric power fed from an emergency power supply.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an additive for a non-aqueous electrolyte solution which has excellent storage stability and which, when used in an electrical storage device, can form a stable SEI on the surface of an electrode to improve battery characteristics such as the cycle characteristics, the charge/discharge capacity, the high-temperature storage characteristics, suppression of gas generation, and reduction in the internal resistance. The present invention also aims to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing the additive for a non-aqueous electrolyte solution and an electrical storage device containing the non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The present invention relates to an additive for a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, the additive containing a cyclic imide compound represented by Formula (1-1), Formula (1-2), Formula (1-3), Formula (1-4), Formula (1-5), or Formula (1-6).

Abstract: A process for producing graphite materials for a negative electrode used in a lithium secondary battery which process includes the steps of packing carbon materials having an average particle diameter of 5 to 50 .mu.m in a plurality of boxes, placing the boxes in a graphitization furnace, subjecting the graphite materials to graphitization treatment, and thereafter subjecting the resultant graphite materials to uniformization treatment by mixing and agitation. The above process is capable of decreasing the influence on the qualitative variation of graphite materials ascribed to packing operation into boxes for graphitization, to the position of the materials in a graphitization furnace, and to bubbling phenomenon or the like through graphitization treatment, and is also capable of stabilizing the qualities of the resulting graphite materials and increasing the productivity.

Abstract: A method of processing a document while a plurality of successive regions of the document are displayed on a display screen of a document processing apparatus is disclosed. The display screen also displays an indicator for indicating a point thereon. The method includes the steps of: displaying the document images to overlap one another; moving the indicator on the display screen; controlling the display screen so that one of the document images corresponding to a region in which the indicator exists is displayed as an uppermost image.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a method for displaying a plurality of display images in a display window, which are stored in a plurality of software objects is provided. The method includes: a first step of selectively displaying a first display image in a first region within the display window; and a second step of selectively displaying a second display image in a second region within the display window. In this method, the second step includes the steps of: indicating a point within the displayed first display image by using an image indicator; changing a magnification power at which the first display image is displayed by moving the image indicator within the first display image, thereby changing sizes of the first and second regions; and displaying the second display image when the size of the second region has reached a predetermined size. The second region is determined based on a relationship between the first and second display images.

Abstract: A method for allowing a user to search for a file includes: a first step of, in response to an enlargement in the size of a window, enlarging a range for searching for a plurality of files displayable in the window; and a second step of, in response to a reduction in the size of a window, reducing the range for searching for the plurality of files displayable in the window.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a spinning nozzle having one or more discharge openings and one or more introduction openings located upstream the discharge openings for producing pitch-based carbon fibers characterized by the presence of one or more spiral members in each introduction openings. According to the nozzle of the present invention, part of the pitch which is introduced to the introduction opening flows down along the spiral member while the flow of the pitch is affected by the spiral member. The remaining pitch flows into the discharge opening without being in contact with the spiral member, and then both are spun after being mixed through the discharge opening to prepare carbon fibers having a random structure. Especially, the carbon fibers of higher performances can be prepared when a spiral having uneven outer diameters is employed.