Abstract: Light detection elements with improved detection sensitivity are disclosed. In one example, a light detection element includes a light reception section that generates a charge according to an amount of received light; a voltage conversion section that acquires the charge via an input node, converts the charge into a voltage signal, and outputs the voltage signal from an output node; a signal amplification section that amplifies the voltage signal; and a comparison section that compares the amplified voltage signal with a predetermined voltage. The voltage conversion section includes an amplification circuit connected between the input node and the output node; and a feedback circuit connected between the input node and the output node, and a gate insulating film of at least one transistor included in the feedback circuit is thicker than gate insulating films of transistors included in the signal amplification section and the comparison section.

Abstract: The disclosure is a cold storage material containing: a cold storage material main agent formed from water and a melting point adjuster; and a freezing point adjuster. The melting point adjuster includes a plurality of types of inorganic salts and an organic compound. Anions of the plurality of types of inorganic salts are all chlorine, and cations of the plurality of types of inorganic salts include at least sodium. The freezing point adjuster is a salt having a functional group that is identical to a cation included in any of the plurality of types of inorganic salts, and the salt has a temperature dependence of saturated solubility in pure water that decreases by 30% or more at a water temperature from 20° C. to 0° C.

Abstract: A power storage module includes a stacked electrode assembly including a plurality of electrodes stacked in a first direction. The stacked electrode assembly has a circumferential surface extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and facing a housing. The power storage module includes an insulating sheet portion disposed between the circumferential surface and the housing and covers the circumferential surface. The insulating sheet portion has first and second insulating sheets extending in the second direction and covering a portion of the circumferential surface. The first and second insulating sheets partially overlap in a circumferential direction of the stacked electrode assembly. The second direction is the longitudinal direction of the overlapped region where the first insulating sheet and the second insulating sheet overlap.

Abstract: A power storage module includes: a stacked electrode assembly which includes a plurality of electrodes stacked in a first direction and is impregnated with an electrolyte solution; and a housing accommodating the stacked electrode assembly. The housing and the stacked electrode assembly extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The power storage module further includes a plate-like member extending in the second direction and disposed facing the stacked electrode assembly within the housing. The plate-like member is disposed so that a thickness direction of the plate-like member is a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. The plate-like member has a facing surface facing the stacked electrode assembly. At least a portion of the facing surface is curved or distorted along the second direction. The facing surface being curved or distorted forms a space between the facing surface and the stacked electrode assembly.

Abstract: A stacked electrode assembly extends in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction which is a laminate direction of each of the electrodes and each of the separators. First and second surfaces of a metallic foil of the electrode each have an active-material coated area and an active-material uncoated area extending in the second direction. The active-material uncoated area of the second surface is located on the back of the active-material uncoated area of the first surface. The active-material uncoated area of the second surface has a first resin placement area in which a resin is disposed and which is located on the active-material coated area side of the second surface. Spaces are formed between the separator and end portions, in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions and on the first resin placement area side, of the active-material uncoated area of the second surface.

Abstract: A stacked electrode assembly includes a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of separators. The electrode and the separator are alternately stacked in a first direction. The stacked electrode assembly extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The stacked electrode assembly further includes a circumferential surface extending in the second direction. A length of the separator in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions is longer than a length of the electrode in the third direction. The circumferential surface has first and second primary surfaces in the first direction and first and second side surfaces in the third direction, the first and second side surfaces continuing to the first and second primary surfaces, respectively. The separator is welded on at least one of the first side surface and the second side surface across a length of the stacked electrode assembly in the first direction.

Abstract: A vehicular laminated glass includes a first glass plate having a first main surface and a second main surface, a second glass plate having a third main surface and a fourth main surface, an adhesive interlayer disposed between the second main surface and the third main surface, a light source which faces the fourth main surface and emits light toward the fourth main surface, and an optical element which is disposed between the fourth main surface and the light source and refracts light emitted from the light source into the fourth main surface.

Abstract: Provided is a latent heat storage material capable of keeping an object to be refrigerated, such as frozen food or ice cream, cold at a temperature of ?20° C. or lower for a long period of time, and of reducing power consumption required at a time of solidification. The latent heat storage material contains 5 to 21 parts by weight of ammonium chloride, 2 to 13 parts by weight of potassium chloride, 5 to 23 parts by weight of urea, and 43 to 88 parts by weight of water. The total of the ammonium chloride, the potassium chloride, the urea, and the water is 100 parts by weight, and the latent heat storage material has a main melting point in a range from ?20° C. to ?23° C.

Abstract: The range-finding apparatus includes a light source, an optical receiver, a setting unit, a detector, and a calculation unit. The light source projects light with a first irradiation pattern in a first period and projects light with a second irradiation pattern in a second period. The optical receiver receives light to output a pixel signal. The setting unit sets a reference signal based on the pixel signal in the first period. The detector detects whether or not the pixel signal varies from the reference signal by a first value or more in the second period and outputs a first detection signal indicative of a result obtained by the detection. The calculation unit calculates a distance to a to-be-measured object using the first detection signal.

Abstract: A method of treating an aqueous solution containing quantum dots, the method includes: a dissolution liquid preparation step of dissolving a quaternary ammonium salt and a potassium salt in an aqueous solution containing quantum dots to prepare a dissolution liquid; a phase separation step of heating the dissolution liquid to separate the dissolution liquid into two phases, which are a quaternary ammonium salt phase containing a large amount of the quaternary ammonium salt and a potassium salt phase containing a large amount of the potassium salt, and also to cause the quantum dots to be included in either one of the quaternary ammonium salt phase and the potassium salt phase; and a fractionation step of separating the quaternary ammonium salt phase and the potassium salt phase by fractionation.

Abstract: Event detection devices are disclosed. in one example, an event detection device includes a photodiode that generates a photoelectric conversion current, a conversion transistor that converts the photoelectric conversion current into a voltage and outputs the voltage from a gate, an amplification transistor that amplifies a voltage between a gate having a potential according to the photoelectric conversion current and a source having a reference potential and outputs the voltage from a drain, a potential supply unit that supplies a predetermined potential lower than the reference potential to an anode of the photodiode, a back gate of the conversion transistor, and a back gate of the amplification transistor, and a potential controller that controls the predetermined potential based on a temperature affectable to a threshold voltage of at least one of the conversion transistor or the amplification transistor.

Abstract: A laminated battery includes an electrode stack including a plurality of electrodes stacked together and having a cuboid shape, and a laminate film covering and sealing the electrodes. The laminate film includes a film body covering four surfaces of the electrode stack, a film partitioning wall interposed between two adjacent electrodes of the plurality of electrodes, and cover members that are twice as many as the electrodes. The film body and the film partitioning wall define accommodating portions respectively accommodating the electrodes. The cover members cover two remaining uncovered sides of each accommodating portion. The cover members each have a recess-shaped portion including a bottom wall and four side walls. An outer surface or an inner surface of the bottom wall faces a side surface of a corresponding one of the electrodes. Outer surfaces of the side walls are fusion-bonded to the film body or the film partitioning wall.

Abstract: A laminate type battery includes: an electrode body; a side-surface member disposed on a side surface of the electrode body; and a laminate film that covers the electrode body and a part of the side-surface member, in which: the side-surface member is disposed at a position deviated from a center of the side surface to one side in a longitudinal direction of the side surface; and in the side-surface member, the volume of the side-surface member positioned on a deviation side on the side surface is equal to the volume of the side-surface member positioned on a non-deviation side on the side surface, the deviation side being the one side to which the side-surface member is positioned so as to be deviated from the center in the longitudinal direction of the side surface, the non-deviation side being the other side in the longitudinal direction of the side surface.

Abstract: A laminate type battery includes an electrode body, and a laminate film that covers and encloses the electrode body, in which: the laminate film includes a film body that covers four surfaces of the electrode body having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and two lid members that cover two remaining side surfaces of the electrode body respectively; and each of the lid members has a concave shape that is constituted by one bottom plane and four wall planes, an outside surface of the concave shape at the bottom plane or an inside surface of the concave shape at the bottom plane faces the side surface of the electrode body, and outside surfaces of the concave shape at the wall planes are fused with the film body.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminate-type battery is disclosed. The battery includes an electrode body, a side member disposed at a side face of the electrode body, and a laminate film covering the electrode body and a part of the side member, the side member being disposed at a position that is offset to a first side in a longitudinal direction of the side face relative to a center of the side face in the longitudinal direction. The method includes welding the laminate film so as to cover the electrode body and a part of the side member. The side member is shaped such that a thickness of the side member in a transverse direction of the side face increases continuously towards the first side.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminate-type battery is disclosed. The laminate-type battery includes an electrode body, a side member disposed at a side surface of the electrode body, and a laminate film covering the electrode body and a part of the side member, the side member being disposed at a position offset to a first side in a longitudinal direction of the side surface. The method includes a welding step of welding the laminate film so as to cover the electrode body and the part of the side member. In the laminate film used in the welding step, an average thickness of a region contacting a first region of the side member is larger than an average thickness of a region contacting a second region of the side member.

Abstract: A cell stack assembly, including: a plurality of stacked battery cells, each including an electrode assembly; a laminate exterior packaging that covers the electrode assembly and encloses the electrode assembly internally; and a fixing tape, including at least one of an inner fixing tape wound in a peripheral direction onto an outer peripheral face of the electrode assembly at an inner side of the laminate exterior packaging, or an outer fixing tape wound in a peripheral direction onto an outer peripheral face of the laminate exterior packaging, wherein: taking a direction in which the plurality of battery cells are stacked as a stacking direction, the fixing tape is wound such that winding positions of the fixing tape do not overlap in the stacking direction for at least one adjacent pair of the battery cells.

Abstract: A laminated battery, a battery element, and a laminate film enclosing the battery element, wherein the laminate film has a fused portion in which end portions are overlapped and an inner surface is fused, and the laminate film has a fused portion side surface in which a fused portion is formed, an opposite side surface opposed to the fused portion side surface, and a pair of main surfaces orthogonal to the fused portion side surface and the opposite side surface and having an area larger than the fused portion side surface and the opposite side surface, and the laminate film has an uneven shape on at least one of the fused portion side surface and the opposite side surface.

Abstract: A battery cell includes an electrode body in which a plurality of laminated structures having a cathode, an anode, and a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode are further laminated, and a tape wound around the outer periphery of the electrode body over one circumference, wherein the tape has an overlapping portion in which one side and the other end side in an outer peripheral direction overlap each other, and a direction in which a plurality of laminated structures are laminated in the electrode body is defined as a lamination direction, and in a case where an end surface in a lamination direction in the electrode body is defined as a lamination surface, the overlapping portion is disposed on a surface other than the lamination surface in the electrode body.

Abstract: The power storage cell includes a case, an electrolyte solution, and an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a separator, and an interposition film. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are alternately stacked. The separator separates the first electrode from the second electrode. The interposition film is interposed between the first electrode and the separator. The interposition film includes a first region and a second region in a plane orthogonal to the stacking direction of the first electrode and the second electrode. The first region includes the center of the interposition film in a plane. The second region surrounds the periphery of the first region. The interposition film satisfies the relationship of the formula (1) “T2<T1”. T1 represents the thickness of the interposition film in the first region. T2 represents the thickness of the interposition film in the second region.