Abstract: The invention provides a secondary battery positive electrode active material including an oxide containing Li, Mn, and Ti, wherein the oxide has a Li content of 43 to 60 mol %, a Mn content of 22 to 35 mol %, and a Ti content of 7 to 29 mol %, the oxide has an X-ray diffraction pattern that is measured using CuK? as an X-ray source and has a maximum X-ray diffraction peak exhibiting the highest peak intensity and existing at an angle in the range of 43 to 45 degrees, the oxide satisfies the formula 0.70<a/(a+b)<0.90, wherein a is the intensity of the maximum X-ray diffraction peak and b is the intensity of a maximum peak among X-ray diffraction peaks in the 20 range of 15 to 22 degrees, and the oxide has a lattice constant of 4.10 to 4.14 ?.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including an AC-DC converter and a main board, and a sub board having a sub connector connectable with a main connector of the main board. When the sub board is not connected with the main board, a main DC-DC converter on the main board converts a DC voltage from the AC-DC converter into a first DC voltage and output the first DC voltage to a circuit element for image formation. When the sub board is connected with the main board, the AC-DC converter outputs the DC voltage to a sub DC-DC converter on the sub board via the main connector and the sub connector, and the sub DC-DC converter converts the DC voltage from the AC-DC converter into a second DC voltage and output the second DC voltage to the circuit element via the sub connector and the main connector.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body housing, a main body connector, a fuser having a fuser connector, a power supply board, and a main board. The fuser connector is disposed at a first end section in the main body housing with the fuser attached to the main body housing. The main board is disposed at a second end section opposed to the first end section in the main body housing. The power supply board is connected with the main board via a first connection line disposed close to and along a ceiling surface or a bottom surface in the main body housing, and is connected with the main body connector via a second connection line. The main board is connected with the fuser via the first connection line, the power supply board, the second connection line, the main body connector, and the fuser connector.

Abstract: Provided is a mineral processing method that allows obtaining a concentrate having a low arsenic grade from a raw material having a high arsenic grade.

Abstract: Provided is an exhaust purification device which is provided in the exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and purifies the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, the exhaust purification device including: a metal support having a flow path in which the exhaust gas flows; and a catalyst layer formed on a surface of the metal support, in which the catalyst layer includes a noble metal, and a metal having a different crystal structure than the noble metal.

Abstract: A cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery contains a lithium transition metal composite oxide as a main component, the lithium transition metal composite oxide is in a form of particles having a layered structure of a lithium layer and a transition metal-lithium layer, the lithium transition metal composite oxide is expressed by General Formula (1) LimNixMnyTizO2 (in the formula, m is in a range of 1.0<m?1.1, x is in a range of 0.4?x<0.5, y is in a range of 0.3<y<0.5, and z is in a range of 0<z?0.133), and as lattice constants (a, c, and c/a) of the lithium transition metal composite oxide, an a-axis length is 2.886 ? to 2.900 ?, a c-axis length is 14.29 ? to 14.35 ?, and c/a is 4.940 to 4.960.

Abstract: A nickel-free and cobalt-free cathode for a lithium (Li) battery is provided. The lithium manganese composite oxide material of the cathode has a sloping discharge voltage profile between 3V to 4 V. The material comprises multiple crystal structures with R3-m, C2/m, and Pmnm space groups, and is characterized to maintain a high capacity when these phases are in a specific ratio.

Abstract: A recording device is equipped with a recording unit and a scanning unit. The document table of the scanning unit is located so that the longitudinal direction of the document table is aligned with the width directions of the device. The size of the document table in the width directions of the device is larger than the size of the medium accommodation section, the center position of the document table in the width directions of the device is shifted in a first direction with respect to the center position of the medium accommodation section, and the recording unit has is a storage section that can hold article at the medium accommodation section side in the first direction and below the scanning unit.

Abstract: A toroidal continuously variable transmission including a power roller; a support supporting the power roller rotatably; a thrust bearing receiving a load of the power roller in a direction along a rotating axis; and an oil passage supplying lubricating oil to the thrust bearing. A surface of the power roller opposing the support includes a first bearing grooved and the support opposing the power roller includes a second bearing groove. A virtual axis of a discharge port in the oil passage reaches a bearing groove that is one of the first bearing groove and the second bearing groove. Viewed from a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis, a portion of a retainer located at a radially inner side of a retaining hole of the retainer and a portion located at a radially inner side of the bearing groove are located at sides opposite to each other across the virtual axis.

Abstract: A receiver circuit includes an input terminal for receiving an input current signal, a transimpedance amplifier having an input node, the transimpedance amplifier converting a current signal input to the input node into a voltage signal, an inductor having a first terminal and a second terminal, and a bypass circuit. The first terminal is coupled to the input terminal and the second terminal is coupled to the input node. The bypass circuit includes a bias circuit supplying a bias voltage, a first variable resistor coupled between the first terminal and the bias circuit, a second variable resistor coupled between the second terminal and the bias circuit, and an impedance adjustment circuit including a resistor and a capacitor connected in parallel to the resistor, the impedance adjustment circuit connected in series to at least one of the first variable resistor and the second variable resistor.

Abstract: A variable gain amplifier circuit includes a main circuit including a differential current circuit, a current divider circuit connected to a high potential side of the differential current circuit, and a load circuit connected to a high potential side of the current divider circuit, the main circuit being configured to generate differential output voltage signals by the load circuit in accordance with either differential input voltage signals or first differential current signals; and a gain adjustment circuit configured to adjust a gain of the main circuit. The gain adjustment circuit includes a generation circuit configured to generate a first control voltage and a second control voltage in accordance with a setting signal, and a limit circuit configured to limit, by detecting an amplitude of the differential output voltage signals, the voltage difference to a limit value or greater so that the amplitude does not become lower than a setting voltage.

Abstract: A box transport rail 70 extending in the box transport direction Tb and a plurality of box transport shuttles 76 movably arranged on the box transport rail 70 to be movable in the box transport direction Tb, which is the movement direction of a packing box Bx, are provided. When located in the sheet feeder 81, the box transport shuttles 76 receive the sheet 9 while being apart from each other across an interval greater than the bottom sheet portion 91 of the sheet 9. During movement from the pushing unit 82 to the sealer 84, the box transport shuttle 76 arranged frontward in the box transport direction Tb is brought close to the bottom sheet portion 91 to reduce the angle of a part 93 frontward of the bottom sheet portion 91 in the box transport direction Tb relative to the bottom sheet portion 91.

Abstract: To provide an automatic analyzer with no need to control a residual amount of a quality control sample. An automatic analyzer includes an input unit which receives a container including a specimen and a quality control sample, an ID reader which reads ID attached to the container, a control unit which assigns measurement items to the ID and controls each unit, and an analysis unit which dispenses the specimen and the quality control sample from the container and performs analysis based on the measurement items, in which when a liquid amount of a first container including the quality control sample is not enough, the control unit assigns measurement items not yet performed, of measurement items assigned to ID of the first container, to ID of a second container including the quality control sample and controls the analysis unit to perform analysis.

Abstract: A continuous casting method of steel of continuously casting a slab by using a vertical liquid bending type continuous casting machine. The method includes, while performing continuous casting by using an in-mold electromagnetic stirring device, applying an alternating-current moving magnetic field that moves in a width direction of a mold to molten steel inside the mold, inducing a swirling flow in the molten steel, and stirring the molten steel. A travel speed of the alternating-current moving magnetic field calculated by a specified formula is in a range of 0.20 to 1.50 m/s.

Abstract: An analysis apparatus (100) includes: emotion data acquisition means (111) for acquiring emotion data that includes time data, the emotion data being generated based on face image data of participants in an online meeting; meeting data acquisition means (112) for acquiring meeting data including image data that includes time data in the meeting; analysis data generation means (113) for generating analysis data regarding the meeting based on the emotion data; screen generation means (114) for generating a playback screen including a seek bar for specifying a time, the analysis data that corresponds to the specified time, and the image data; and output means (115) for outputting the playback screen.

Abstract: An analysis apparatus comprises at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to acquire emotion data including time data from an emotion data generation apparatus that generates the emotion data from face image data of participants in an online meeting, acquire meeting data regarding the meeting including the time data, generate chapters for the meeting based on the meeting data, generate analysis data regarding the meeting based on the emotion data for each of the chapters, output the generated analysis data.

Abstract: An internal discharge space is defined between an image reading section and an image forming section and the internal discharge space has an opening in a front of the image forming apparatus. Since the internal discharge space has the opening in the front of the image forming apparatus, a border between the internal discharge space and the housing is located in the front of the image forming apparatus. A light emitting section having a predetermined length along the border is provided and emits light along the predetermined length of the border, enabling users to check a light emission state from a distance. Accordingly, a state of the image forming apparatus can be indicated by the light emitting section.

Abstract: An analysis apparatus comprises at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to comprises at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to acquire emotion data from an emotion data generation apparatus that generates emotion data from face image data of a meeting participant in an online meeting, generate analysis data for the meeting on the basis of the emotion data, acquire meeting data including attribute data of the meeting, store message data in which a pattern of a message to be presented to a user is associated with the meeting data, select the message on the basis of the analysis data and the message data, and store an analysis result including the selected message in a storage unit in an outputtable manner.

Abstract: An analysis apparatus acquires individual emotion data for each participant generated on the basis of face image data of the participants in an online meeting during the meeting. The analysis apparatus generates, for each participant, analysis data indicating a degree of emotion in the online meeting on the basis of the individual emotion data. The analysis apparatus stores each piece of the analysis data for each participant in association with corresponding color tone information. The analysis apparatus generates, as a display image indicating a state of the online meeting, an image in which element figures represented by the color tone information associated with the analysis data are disposed for each of a plurality of the participants who have participated in the online meeting. The analysis apparatus outputs the generated display image.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes, in a body having a predetermined house, an image-reading unit and an image-forming unit that is configured to form an image read by the image-reading unit. A discharge portion is configured to discharge a sheet on which the image was formed onto a discharge tray. An intra-apparatus-discharge space is formed in the body between the image-reading unit and the image-forming unit. The housing includes therein a consumption article mounting portion in which a consumption article used by the image-forming unit is mounted. At least a portion of a surface of the housing at a region of the consumption article mounting portion has a light-transmissive property. When the consumption article is consumed and needs to be replenished, the operator can visually check the region of the consumption article mounting portion in the housing from the outside of the body through the transparent portion.