Abstract: A battery includes: an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode that are stacked with a separator interposed therebetween; and a container housing the electrode group together with an alkaline electrolyte liquid. The air electrode includes a catalyst for an air secondary battery, and this catalyst for an air secondary battery includes a pyrochlore bismuth-ruthenium composite oxide having a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak corresponding to a (222) face obtained by a powder X-ray diffraction method using CuK? rays as X-rays, of 0.350 deg or larger and 0.713 deg or smaller.

Abstract: A flush toilet apparatus includes a toilet body that includes a rim water spout port, a tank that stores washing water, a rim side water supply channel that supplies washing water to the rim water spout port, a tank side water supply channel that supplies washing water to the tank, a flow channel switching part that adjusts an amount of washing water that is supplied to one or both of the rim side water supply channel and the tank side water supply channel, and an electrical power failure detection part that detects electrical power failure, wherein, in a case where electrical power failure is caused when washing water is supplied to the tank side water supply channel, the flow channel switching part decreases washing water that is supplied to the tank side water supply channel and increases washing water that is supplied to the rim side water supply channel.

Abstract: A display device is provided and includes first substrate comprising first base member, first terminal and pixel electrodes; second substrate comprising second base member comprising first surface opposing and spaced apart from first terminal and second surface on an opposite side to first surface, second terminal located on side of second surface, and first hole which penetrates from first surface to second surface and second terminal; organic insulating layer provided between first terminal and second base member and adjacent to display area, organic insulating layer having second hole beneath first hole; and connecting material provided on first and second hole to electrically connect first terminal and second terminal, wherein organic insulating layer includes sealant attaches first substrate and second substrate, diameter of second hole is greater than diameter of first hole, and at least one of first terminal and second terminal including oxide electrode in contact with connecting material.

Abstract: An air cleaner includes a case having an internal space, a filter element capable of partitioning the internal space into a first space and a second space, an intake port that introduces an air into the first space therethrough, an exhaust port that discharges an air from the second space, and at least one baffle part projecting toward the filter element from an inner surface of the case. The baffle part diffuses the air introduced into the first space and introduces the air to the filter element. The baffle part includes a widened baffle part. The widened baffle part includes a guide section extending along an extending surface of the filter element and a widened section larger in width than the guide section.

Abstract: A battery includes: an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode that are stacked with a separator interposed therebetween; and a container housing the electrode group together with an alkaline electrolyte liquid. The air electrode includes a catalyst for an air electrode. This catalyst for an air electrode is a catalyst for an air electrode including an oxide containing at least bismuth (Bi), ruthenium (Ru), sodium (Na), and oxygen, and Na/(Ru+Bi+Na) representing an atomic ratio of the sodium to a sum of the bismuth, the ruthenium, and the sodium is 0.126 or more and 0.145 or less.

Abstract: An air electrode catalyst for an air secondary battery includes a pyrochlore-type composite oxide having two or more crystal structures having a different amount of oxygen. A battery, according to some embodiments, includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and a container accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution, wherein the air electrode includes the air electrode catalyst. The air electrode catalyst may have a pyrochlore-type composite oxide having a crystal structure represented by Bi2Ru2O6.92 and a crystal structure represented by Bi2Ru2O7.33.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a light source that emits light to the liquid crystal layer, and the first substrate includes a first portion opposing the second substrate and having a first thickness and a second portion not opposing the second substrate and having a second thickness which is less than the first thickness, and the light source is disposed on the second portion, and the light source includes a first surface opposing the second portion and a second surface opposing the first surface, and a wiring substrate is disposed on the second surface so that the wiring substrate does not protrude with respect to the second substrate in a thickness direction.

Abstract: A flush toilet apparatus includes a toilet body that includes a rim water spout port, a tank that stores washing water, a rim side water supply channel that supplies washing water to the rim water spout port, a tank side water supply channel that supplies washing water to the tank, a flow channel switching part that adjusts an amount of washing water that is supplied to one or both of the rim side water supply channel and the tank side water supply channel, and an electrical power failure detection part that detects electrical power failure, wherein, in a case where electrical power failure is caused when washing water is supplied to the tank side water supply channel, the flow channel switching part decreases washing water that is supplied to the tank side water supply channel and increases washing water that is supplied to the rim side water supply channel.

Abstract: Display device is provided and includes first substrate; second substrate including transparent conductive film; optical element adhered to transparent conductive film; and connecting member, wherein first substrate includes first region which overlaps second substrate and includes display portion, and second region including electrode, second substrate includes substrate edge located at boundary between first and second regions and the second region in first direction, optical element includes optical element edge located between display portion and substrate edge in second direction intersecting first direction, optical element edge does not overlap substrate edge in plan view, transparent conductive film includes extended portion extending from optical element edge toward substrate edge, connecting member is in contact with substrate edge and electrically connects electrode and extended portion, optical element includes notch, and notch and connecting member are arranged in second direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a light source that emits light to the liquid crystal layer, and the first substrate includes a first portion opposing the second substrate and having a first thickness and a second portion not opposing the second substrate and having a second thickness which is less than the first thickness, and the light source is disposed on the second portion, and the light source includes a first surface opposing the second portion and a second surface opposing the first surface, and a wiring substrate is disposed on the second surface so that the wiring substrate does not protrude with respect to the second substrate in a thickness direction.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and an accommodating bag accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution. The air electrode includes a catalyst for an air secondary battery. This catalyst for an air secondary battery is produced by a method for producing a catalyst for an air secondary battery, the method including a precursor preparation step of preparing a bismuth-ruthenium oxide precursor, a calcination step of calcining the bismuth-ruthenium oxide precursor obtained in this precursor preparation step to form a bismuth-ruthenium oxide, and a nitric acid treatment step of immersing the bismuth-ruthenium oxide obtained by this calcination step in a nitric acid aqueous solution.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and an accommodating bag accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution. The air electrode includes a catalyst for an air secondary battery. This catalyst for an air secondary battery is produced by a method for producing a catalyst for an air secondary battery, the method including a precursor preparation step of preparing a bismuth-ruthenium oxide precursor, a calcination step of calcining the bismuth-ruthenium oxide precursor obtained in this precursor preparation step to form a bismuth-ruthenium oxide, and a nitric acid treatment step of immersing the bismuth-ruthenium oxide obtained by this calcination step in a nitric acid aqueous solution.

Abstract: An air electrode catalyst for an air secondary battery includes a pyrochlore-type composite oxide having two or more crystal structures having a different amount of oxygen. A battery, according to some embodiments, includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and a container accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution, wherein the air electrode includes the air electrode catalyst. The air electrode catalyst may have a pyrochlore-type composite oxide having a crystal structure represented by Bi2Ru2O6.92 and a crystal structure represented by Bi2Ru2O7.33.

Abstract: An automatic volume control to prevent the listener from having an odd sensation is obtained with a plurality of conditions taken into considerations. A plurality of control rules required to infer using fuzzy logic a volume correcting value on the basis of frequency band component levels, L, M and H and a volume level V are stored beforehand in a volume correcting value inferring portion 13. The volume correcting value inferring portion 13 obtains inference results of the individual control rules on the basis of the individual frequency band component levels L, M, H input from a filter circuit 12 and the volume level input from an audio reproducing portion 14, obtains a weighted mean of the respective inference results as a volume correcting value Z, and inputs the volume correcting value to the audio reproducing portion 14 to automatically correct the volume.

Abstract: A sound system for a vehicle detects the amount of noise, such as road noise, and automatically controls the audio volume in accordance with the noise amount. There are provided a plurality of tables, in which the relationships among the present volume, the noise amount and the volume increase amount of the audio signal are stored. Once one of the plurality of tables is selected by using a table selection key according to the type of the vehicle or the sound system, the volume is automatically controlled based on the characteristic of the selected table.