Abstract: Disclosed is a navigation device including: a target candidate extracting unit for extracting target candidates located along a guidance route from a map database on a basis of a vehicle position, the guidance route, and intersection information about a target intersection for guidance; a target determining unit for determining a target on a basis of knowledge about target determination from among the target candidates extracted by the target candidate extracting unit; a guidance sentence generating unit for generating a guidance sentence by using the target determined by the target determining unit; and a sound output unit for outputting voice guidance on a basis of the guidance sentence generated by the guidance sentence generating unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a navigation device including a guidance route calculation unit 3 for calculating a guidance route by using point information about a destination, point information about a current position, and map information, a guidance map generating unit 5 for generating a guidance route map by using the calculated guidance route and the map information, a guidance route surrounding facility icon arrangement unit 6 for extracting a facility icon required for the calculated guidance route according to a facility icon extraction rule, and for determining an offset arrangement position of this facility icon, and a display unit 11 for attaching the facility icon at the above-mentioned determined offset arrangement position on the above-mentioned guidance route map to display the facility icon.

Abstract: Evaluation values are set for placement candidate positions as indices for determining appropriate positions as positions for relocating objects; among from the placement candidate positions set for an object that comes later in an order of display, the placement candidate position that is set by an evaluation value indicative of being most appropriate as a position to be relocated is extracted, and whether or not the object that comes later in the order of display is adapted to a likely placement at the corresponding placement candidate position is determined; and the object is relocated at the placement candidate position that is determined the likely placement and drawn.

Abstract: A navigation device includes a road periphery display change unit 3 that selects a road R which connects to, intersects with, or is adjacent to a guidance route/a travel plan route 21 from a map database 5, and displays the road in a high contrast on the inside of a predetermined distance from the guidance route/the travel plan route 21, displays the road in a low contrast on the outside of the predetermined distance, and displays the road by changing continuously or stepwise a gradation in an intermediate region between the inside and the outside.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data processing device including a data acquisition unit for acquiring data from a medium, an integrated database for integrating the data acquired by the data acquisition unit thereinto, a data analysis determination unit for analyzing the data integrated into the integrated database, a display control unit for creating an image of a side view of and an image of a bottom view of a solid expressing the data integrated into the integrated database on the basis of an analysis result acquired by the data analysis determination unit and the data, and a display unit for displaying the images created by the display control unit.

Abstract: A lithium primary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, a positive electrode case, a negative electrode case, a gasket, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes: lithium or a lithium alloy; a lithium carboxylate layer formed on a surface of the lithium or lithium alloy; and a carbon layer formed on a surface of the lithium carboxylate layer. This configuration allows the lithium primary battery to have suppressed negative electrode polarization during discharge and improved large-current discharge characteristics in a low temperature environment and after high temperature storage.

Abstract: A wound electrode assembly 12 includes a columnar conductive winding core 14, a negative electrode sheet 15, a positive electrode sheet 16, a separator 17 interposed between the negative electrode sheet 15 and the positive electrode sheet 16, and a conductive winding core 14 having a first flat portion 20 to which an exposed portion 26 of the negative electrode sheet 15 is joined. An edge 28 of the conductive winding core 14 is not positioned on the surface of a curved portion 18, but is positioned inside a circle 23 with a predetermined radius in the radial direction of the conductive winding core 14. Joints 27 of the first flat portion 20 and the exposed portion 26 are positioned inside the circle 23 with the predetermined radius in the radial direction of the conductive winding core 14.

Abstract: A lithium primary battery includes: a negative electrode comprising lithium metal or a lithium alloy; a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material; a separator disposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode; a carbon layer interposed between the negative electrode and the separator, the carbon layer including carbon particles and a coating on a surface of the carbon particles, the coating including a lithium carboxylate and lithium carbonate; and a non-aqueous electrolyte with a carboxylic acid concentration of 0% by weight or more and less than 0.01% by weight.

Abstract: The invention provides a lithium primary battery including a negative electrode 12 comprising metal lithium or a lithium alloy, a positive electrode 11 including a positive electrode active material, a separator 13 interposed between the negative electrode 12 and the positive electrode 11, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode 12 includes a coating layer 17 on a surface thereof facing the positive electrode 11, the coating layer containing carbon particles each having fluorine-containing fine particles on the surface thereof, for the purpose of improving both the discharge performance and the high temperature storage characteristics.

Abstract: A lithium primary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, a positive electrode case, a negative electrode case, a gasket, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes: lithium or a lithium alloy; a lithium carboxylate layer formed on a surface of the lithium or lithium alloy; and a carbon layer formed on a surface of the lithium carboxylate layer. This configuration allows the lithium primary battery to have suppressed negative electrode polarization during discharge and improved large-current discharge characteristics in a low temperature environment and after high temperature storage.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte lithium secondary battery comprising a negative electrode of spinel-type lithium-titanium oxide with improved overcharge and overdischarge characteristics is disclosed. In this battery, the rechargeable electric capacity of the negative electrode is adjusted to be smaller than that of the positive electrode. In a preferable mode, the negative electrode may further comprise a material which has more negative potential than that of the lithium-titanium oxide, and shows electrochemical reversibility. An electrolyte comprising ethylene carbonate and LiN(CF3SO2)2 or LiN(C2F5SO2)2 is preferable.

Abstract: An open-cell polyisocyanurate foam for fixing and supporting plants, which is prepared from an aromatic isocyanate, a hydroxyl compound having an average number of functional groups of 1.0 or above and an oxyethylene content of 20 wt % or above, an isocyanuration catalyst and a silicone foam stabilizer consisting of a polysiloxyane/polyoxyalkylene copolymer wherein the terminal OH group of the polyether segment is capped with a compound not having any other active hydrogen atom and oxyethylene units are contained in an amount of 30 wt % or above, and which exhibits a density of 8 to 70 kg/m3, an open cell content of 98% or above, a hardness of 0.1 to 2.