Abstract: A power storage device has a case member, a terminal member, and a resin member subjected to insert molding to fix the terminal member to the case member. The resin member is made of a resin material including a thermoplastic main resin having a first glass transition temperature equal to or higher than 70° C., a thermoplastic elastomer, and a filler. The elastomer has a second glass transition temperature that is equal to or higher than ?10° C. and equal to or lower than 20° C. and a third glass transition temperature equal to or lower than ?40° C.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a power storage device includes a laser welding step in which a laser beam is irradiated to an opening portion of a case body and a peripheral portion of a case lid member of a lid assembly over the entire circumference to laser weld them while the opening portion of the case body is closed by the case lid member, a shielding step, prior to the laser welding step, in which a shield member is placed in position on the lid assembly to prevent scattered light of the laser beam from reaching a resin member, and a removing step, after the laser welding step, in which the shield member is removed.

Abstract: A power storage device has a case member, a first terminal member, a second terminal member, a first resin member hermetically joined to the case member and the first terminal member, and a second resin member hermetically joined to the case member and the second terminal member. The first resin member is made of a first resin material having a resin material linear expansion coefficient ? within the range of 1.6×10?5 to 2.7×10?5 (1/K), and the second resin member is made of a second resin material that is different from the first resin material and has a resin material flexural modulus E of 17 GPa or less.

Abstract: A power storage device includes a current collecting terminal, a case member having a terminal insertion hole, and an insulating resin member connecting the current collecting terminal with a hole periphery and a hole surrounding portion of the terminal insertion hole. The current collecting terminal and the case member have seal portions that ensure airtightness in a case, at connecting portions connecting with the insulating resin member, and each of the seal portions is a roughened surface. The insulating resin member has a thermoplastic resin material including high molecular weight particles with a molecular weight of 10,000 or more and low molecular weight particles with a molecular weight of 500 to 5,000, and the low molecular weight particles are included 5 to 15% by weight in the thermoplastic resin material and are unevenly distributed closer to the roughened surface.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an underlayer, a first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer in this order. The first magnetic layer includes magnetic grains having a L10 structure, and the second magnetic layer has a granular structure including magnetic grains having a L10 structure, and a grain boundary portion including hexagonal boron nitride. A (111) plane of the magnetic grains included in the first magnetic layer is covered with boron nitride at an interface with the second magnetic layer. The magnetic grains included in the second magnetic layer are epitaxially grown from a (001) plane of the magnetic grains included in the first magnetic layer. The magnetic grains included in the first magnetic layer and the magnetic grains included in the second magnetic layer are columnar crystals penetrating the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer, respectively.

Abstract: Provided is a valuable technology in the fields of agriculture and horticulture, such as a technology for controlling a parasitic plant. A parasitic plant is controlled by utilizing compounds that may have similar or opposite functions to a strigolactone, such as an amino acid derivative having a D ring.

Abstract: A vibration damping and sound insulating device installed on an installation object, includes: vibrators disposed at a prescribed spacing. Each of the vibrators includes: a cylindrical tubular member on the installation object; an elastic body supported by the cylindrical tubular member such that the elastic body traverses a hollow portion of the cylindrical tubular member along a direction orthogonal to an axis of the cylindrical tubular member; and a weight on the elastic body.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus for generating or detecting an electromagnetic wave, comprises a first active antenna including a first oscillator and a first antenna, a second active antenna including a second oscillator and a second antenna, a coupling wire configured to couple the first antenna and the second antenna, a first terminal configured to accept a signal for controlling a first oscillation frequency of the first oscillator before synchronization by the coupling wire, and a second terminal configured to accept a signal for controlling, independently of the first oscillation frequency, a second oscillation frequency of the second oscillator before synchronization by the coupling wire.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus comprises, on a semiconductor substrate, a first active antenna including a first antenna configured to transmit or receive a first electromagnetic wave of a first frequency, and a first negative-resistance element; an oscillation unit including a resonance unit and a second negative-resistance element configured to generate a second electromagnetic wave by oscillating at a second frequency; a coupling wire configured to electrically connect the first active antenna and the oscillation unit; a first wiring electrically connected to the first negative-resistance element and configured to receive a first bias signal to be supplied to the first negative-resistance element; and a second wiring electrically connected to the second negative-resistance element and configured to receive a second bias signal to be supplied to the second negative-resistance element.

Abstract: A service system includes a reservation section by which a reservation for a commodity or a service in a commercial facility can be made and specific information for an electric vehicle that visits the commercial facility can be set, a connection confirmation section that detects that an electric vehicle corresponding to the specific information set by the reservation section has been connected to a charge and discharge device of the commercial facility, and a notification section that notifies the commercial facility that connection of the electric vehicle corresponding to the specific information to the charge and discharge device has been detected by the connection confirmation section.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, a control method, and a program that can improve usability. An imaging apparatus includes a control unit that causes recording of moving image capture mode information that indicates a moving image capture mode last used before power-off of the imaging apparatus, and causes power-on of the imaging apparatus when a predetermined operation is performed while the imaging apparatus is in a power-off state, and makes a setting to the moving image capture mode indicated by the moving image capture mode information upon activation of a function to start capturing a moving image or after termination of capturing of the moving image due to the activation of the function. The present technology can be applied to a digital camera.

Abstract: A metal member (a lid member and a positive terminal member) has a surface with a joining region to be joined to a resin member (a positive-electrode resin member) to seal between the first space and the second space (outside and inside of a battery) in combination with the resin member. The joining region includes a roughened region formed on the surface and constituted of a base layer composed of accumulated debris particles, and a column group layer composed of nano columnar bodies standing densely in two dimensions, each being formed of the debris particles bonding to one another like strings of beads extending in the height direction from the base layer. The nano columnar bodies in the resin member have an average height of 84 nm or more.

Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes a base, a first inductor, and a second inductor. The first inductor is on the base. The first inductor has a first winding extension, a second winding extension, and a first winding coupled between the first winding extension and the second winding extension, in which at least a part of the second winding extension is vertically between at least a part of the first winding extension and the base. Also, the second inductor is on the base. The second inductor has a third winding extension, a fourth winding extension, and a second winding coupled between the third winding extension and the fourth winding extension, in which at least a part of the fourth winding extension is vertically between at least a part of the third winding extension and the base, and the second winding is laterally adjacent to the first winding.

Abstract: A battery is a lithium-ion battery including a case, an electrode body and an electrolytic solution which are housed inside the case, and a resin member fixed to the case and having an inner exposed surface which is exposed inside the case. The electrolytic solution is a non-aqueous electrolytic solution containing fluorine. The resin member includes glass filler formed of glass which contains silicon oxide as a main body and added with group 2 elements. A number of atoms ratio of the group 2 elements to silicon in component elements of the glass filler is 0.12% or more and 65% or less.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, in a memory card, a sealing portion houses the memory chip and the controller chip and includes a first main surface and a second main surface arranged on an opposite side of the first main surface. A first terminal group includes a plurality of electrode terminals arranged in a first direction inside the first main surface. A second terminal group includes a plurality of electrode terminals arranged in the first direction inside the first main surface. A conductive pattern is arranged between the first terminal group and the second terminal group in the first main surface. A conductive pattern has a longer dimension than that of the electrode terminal in the first terminal group. The conductive pattern has a longer dimension than that of the electrode terminal in the second terminal group. The conductive pattern is in a planar shape.

Abstract: In an aluminum member, a member body made of metal aluminum (a lid member and a positive terminal member) is formed, on its member surface, with protrusions (a lid upper-surface protrusion layer, a lid lower-surface protrusion layer, a terminal side-surface protrusion layer, a terminal lower-surface protrusion layer) having a nano-order diameter of less than 1 ?m and a nano-order height of less than 1 ?m, which are densely arranged. Proximal end portions of the protrusions, continuous to the member surface, contains amorphous alumina and ?-alumina.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a suspension, a ramp mechanism, a housing, and a screw. The suspension holds the magnetic head and moves between a load position and an unload position. The ramp mechanism includes a ramp member that holds the suspension at the unload position, and a cylindrical member with a through hole, being fixed to the ramp member. The housing includes a first support surface with a screw hole supporting the cylindrical member. The screw includes a screw head and a screw shaft fitted into the screw hole through the through hole. The screw holds the cylindrical member between the screw head and the first support surface. A contact area between the cylindrical member and the housing is set to larger than a contact area between the cylindrical member and the screw head.

Abstract: A water treatment plant which performs water treatment using a water treatment device includes an imaging device, a processing device, and a control device. The imaging device images a water treatment environment of the water treatment device and outputs image data obtained by imaging. The processing device causes an arithmetic device which performs an arithmetic operation using one or more calculation models generated by machine learning to execute the arithmetic operation employing the image data output from the imaging device as input data of the one or more calculation models. The control device controls the water treatment device on the basis of output information output from the arithmetic device by executing the arithmetic operation.

Abstract: A device includes a first inductor and a second inductor reversely coupled with the first inductor. The first and second inductors have overlapping windings. The device also includes a housing for the first and second inductor. The housing is filled with a magnetic molding compound.

Abstract: A battery includes a unit member in which a positive-electrode resin member made of resin is joined to each of a lid and a positive terminal member, which are made of metal. The lid and the positive terminal member are formed, on respective surfaces, with protrusions that have an average diameter of less than 1 ?m on a nano-order and are arranged in a densely reticulated arrangement. The resin forming the positive-electrode resin member intrudes into each gap between at least distal ends of the adjacent protrusions, so that the positive-electrode resin member is joined to at least the distal ends of the protrusions.