Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode slurry composition including a binder resin, a water-soluble polymer, and a negative electrode active material, wherein the binder resin including (A) a styrene-butadiene copolymer latex having a gel amount of 70 to 98% and having a glass transition temperature in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement with a single peak at ?30° C. to 60° C. and (B) a polymer latex formed of a hetero-phase structure having a glass transition temperature in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement with at least one peak at ?100° C. to 10° C. and having a glass transition temperature in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement with at least one peak at 10° C. to 100° C., and the negative electrode active material including a carbon-based active material and a silicon-based active material.

Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode slurry composition including a binder resin, a water-soluble polymer, and a negative electrode active material, wherein the binder resin including (A) a styrene-butadiene copolymer latex having a gel amount of 70 to 98% and a glass transition temperature of ?30° C. to 60° C. in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement and (B) an acryl polymer latex having a gel amount of 70 to 98% and a glass transition temperature of ?100° C. to 0° C. in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement, and the negative electrode active material including a carbon-based active material and a silicon-based active material.

Abstract: A lens barrel comprises a first zoom/focus lens group and a second zoom/focus lens group configured to respectively vary a focal distance and imaging distance by moving in an optical axis, a first actuator configured to drive the first zoom/focus lens group, a second actuator configured to drive the second zoom/focus lens group, and a drive controller configured to independently control the first actuator and the second actuator. The drive controller is configured to wobble the first zoom/focus lens group by reciprocating only the first zoom/focus lens group out of the first and second zoom/focus lens groups in a optical axis direction.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including: a base; a panel; a support for supporting the panel with respect to the base; and a vibrator for causing the panel to vibrate at a given frequency. The support includes a first region located at a part corresponding to a node of vibration of the panel, and a second region located at a part other than the node of the vibration of the panel. The support has a rigidity that is smaller in the first region than in the second region.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a temperature of an exhaust gas which is exhausted from an internal combustion engine to an exhaust manifold. The apparatus estimates the temperature of the exhaust gas in the exhaust manifold, based on a temperature increment caused by an adiabatic compression until a gas introduced in an intake manifold is exhausted to the exhaust manifold, and a temperature increment obtained by dividing the amount of heat lost in the exhaust gas among the amount of heat introduced into cylinders by the diluted gas flow of the exhaust gas in the exhaust manifold.

Abstract: An electronic device 100 includes a display part 160, a panel member 130, a vibration part 140, and an adhesive part 150. The panel member 130 is a member arranged so as to face the display part 160 and touched by a user. The vibration part 140 is attached to a face of the panel member 130 facing the display part 160, and causes the panel member 130 to vibrate. The adhesive part 150 is provided between the display part 160 and the panel member 130 so as to cover the vibration part 140, and bonds the display part 160 and the panel member 130 together.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus 10 includes a touch pad 11 for accepting a touch operation of a user, a support section 12 for supporting the touch pad 11, and a vibrating section 13 attached to the touch pad 11 for flexurally deforming the touch pad 11. As flexural vibration of the touch pad 11 is transmitted to the support section 12, the support section 12 deforms to vibrate in displacement vibration. An amplitude of the displacement vibration of the support section 12 is greater than an amplitude of the flexural vibration of the touch pad 11.

Abstract: A traffic information presentation system according to an embodiment is a system for presenting a tactile sensation to a user based on traffic information, including: a touch section; a tactile presentation section; an input section for receiving traffic information; and a control section for controlling the tactile presentation section based on the traffic information. The control section monitors a status of touch with respect to the touch section, and accepts an instruction from the user that corresponds to the touch input operation when detecting that an amount of change in touched position equals to or exceeds a certain amount. When detecting that the amount of change in touched position is less than the certain amount and that the touch duration equals to or exceeds a certain length, the control section causes the tactile presentation section to present a tactile sensation based on the traffic information.

Abstract: A method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a method of notifying a specific option among plural options to a user by using an electronic device 1, including a step of detecting plural touches made by the user on the touch pad 10. The plural options including the specific option are determined according to a situation of use of the electronic device 1. The plurality of touched positions on the touch pad 10 are associated with the plural options. There is further included a step of presenting a tactile sensation at a touched position among the plurality of touched positions that is associated with the specific option, the tactile sensation being distinct from that for any other touched position.

Abstract: An electronic device 100 includes: a touch panel 130 to be touched by a user; a panel vibrating section 140 for vibrating the touch panel 130; a tactile control section 33 for controlling the panel vibrating section 140; a display section 160 for presenting reference information indicating a reference timing with which the user is to make a touch operation on the touch panel 130; and a microcomputer 20 for detecting an amount of deviation between an input timing of the user's touch operation on the touch panel 130 and the reference timing. Based on the detected amount of deviation, the tactile control section 33 varies the vibration of the touch panel 130 to give the user a tactile sensation through the vibration.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for predicting the effectiveness of an angiogenesis inhibitor in a subject suffering from a tumor. Provided is a method comprising a step of testing for the presence or absence of an a mutation or loss of expression of B-Raf and PTEN in a sample of tumor tissue from the subject. By using the presence or absence of or a mutation or loss of expression of B-Raf and PTEN as an indicator, this method enables the antitumor effectiveness of the angiogenesis inhibitor to be predicted without administering the angiogenesis inhibitor to the subject.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a reproduction section for reproducing a content item; a touch panel for detecting a user operation for changing a reproduction position of the content item; and a vibrating section for vibrating the touch panel. The vibrating section varies the vibration of the touch panel depending on whether or not the reproduction position which has been changed through the user operation detected by the touch panel is a specified reproduction position.

Abstract: An electronic device 100 includes a display unit 165 including a display part 160 having a display region 160a on which to display an image, a panel member 130 to be touched by a user, and a first adhesive part 150 which is provided so as to cover the display region 160a and which bonds the panel member 130 and the display part 160 together; a vibration part 140 which causes flexural vibration of the display unit 165; and a second adhesive part 155 which bonds the vibration part to the display unit. The rigidity of the first adhesive part 150 is lower than the rigidity of the second adhesive part 155.

Abstract: An electronic device 10 includes a touch panel 11, a vibration section 13 configured to vibrate a touch panel 11, and a control sections 20 and 33 configured to control the vibration section 13 based on an existence state of persons other than an operator of the electronic device 10 and being near to the electronic device 10.

Abstract: The electronic device includes: a display device capable of displaying a captured image and an item image; a touch screen panel for accepting an operation by a user; and a control circuit for calculating a displayed position and a displayed size for the item image based on a position and a size of a reference object in the captured image, generating a synthetic image in which the item image is merged with the captured image, and causing the display device to display the synthetic image, the control circuit generating a synthetic image in which the displayed position and displayed size of the item image are adjusted in accordance with an operation on the touch screen panel by the user.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus 10 includes a touch pad 11 for accepting a touch operation of a user, a support section 12 for supporting the touch pad 11, and a vibrating section 13 attached to the touch pad 11 for flexurally deforming the touch pad 11. As flexural vibration of the touch pad 11 is transmitted to the support section 12, the support section 12 deforms to vibrate in displacement vibration. An amplitude of the displacement vibration of the support section 12 is greater than an amplitude of the flexural vibration of the touch pad 11.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including: a base; a panel; a support for supporting the panel with respect to the base; and a vibrator for causing the panel to vibrate at a given frequency. The support includes a first region located at a part corresponding to a node of vibration of the panel, and a second region located at a part other than the node of the vibration of the panel. The support has a rigidity that is smaller in the first region than in the second region.

Abstract: An exemplary electronic device includes: a housing; a display configured to display an operation area; a touch screen panel configured to detect at least an input operation made by a user to the operation area; a first vibrator configured to vibrate at least one of the display and the touch screen panel; a second vibrator configured to vibrate the housing; and a vibration controller configured to control vibration of the first vibrator and the second vibrator in accordance with the input operation of the user to the touch screen panel.

Abstract: An electronic device 10 according to an embodiment includes: a display section 12 for displaying an operation area 40; a touch panel 11 disposed on a display surface side of the display section 12; a vibration section 13 for vibrating the touch panel 11; a vibration control section 33 for controlling a vibration pattern of the vibration section 13; and a detection section 20 for detecting whether an operation to the touch panel 11 has been made with a has been made with a finger of a user or a pen. The vibration control section 33 varies the vibration pattern of the vibration section 13 depending on whether a finger or a pen is detected by the detection section 20.

Abstract: An electronic device 10 according to an embodiment includes: a display section 12 for displaying an operation area 45 including a reference area 41 and a non-reference area 42; a touch panel 11 provided on a display surface side of the display section 12; an informing section 13 for informing a user of an operation status of the user; a control section 33 and 20 for controlling the operation of the informing section 13; and a distinction section 16 for distinguishing between a first operation where the user searches for the reference area 41 on the touch panel 11 and a second operation which is a key input operation to the operation area 45. The control section 33 and 20 controls the operation of the informing section 13 based on a result of distinction by the distinction section 16.