Nec Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Kazuhiro Iida

Atsushi Fukui

Hisao Kawaura

Toru Sano

Noriyuki Iguchi

Masakazu Baba

Wataru Hattori

Naoya Morisawa

Takanobu Chiga

Hiroko Someya

Toshitsugu Sakamoto

Takayuki Nakatsutsumi

Gempo Ito

Hiroyuki Matsumoto

Nobuhiko Hojo

Masatoshi Tokushima

Katsutoshi Takahashi

Masaki Deguchi

Minoru Asogawa

Ko Mizuno

Kazuhiro Nakamura

Masanobu Takeuchi

Tsuyoshi Shimoda

Kenji Matsubara

Machiko Fujita

A secondary battery includes a negative electrode containing a lithium silicate phase and silicon particles dispersed in the lithium silicate phase and an electrolytic solution containing a fluorine-containing linear carboxylic acid ester represented by R—(CO)O—CH—R(wherein Ris an alkyl group and Ris an alkyl group in which at least one hydrogen atom is substituted with fluorine).

Secondary battery

A rechargeable battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution is provided. The electrolyte solution contains water and one or more lithium salts, and the lithium salts include lithium fluorophosphate.

Rechargeable battery and electrolyte solution

A nonaqueous electrolyte includes a lithium salt and a nonaqueous solvent in which the lithium salt is dissolved. The nonaqueous solvent includes a fluorinated chain carboxylate ester and a dicarbonyl compound having two carbonyl groups in the molecule. The dicarbonyl compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of esters and acid anhydrides and has not more than three atoms between the two carbonyl groups.

Nonaqueous electrolyte and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A nonaqueous electrolyte solution according to one embodiment of the present disclosure contains a lithium salt and a nonaqueous solvent; the nonaqueous solvent contains fluoroethylene carbonate and a chain carboxylic acid ester having a dielectric constant of 6.0 or more; the lithium salt contains LiPOFand LiSOF; and the respective concentrations of LiPOFand LiSOF in the non-aqueous solvent are 0.15 mol/L or more.

Nonaqueous electrolyte solution and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell provided with: a positive electrode that has a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode active material contains a lithium composite oxide containing Ni, and the non-aqueous electrolyte contains a non-aqueous solvent containing a fluorinated chain carboxylic acid ester and an organochlorine compound. The organochlorine compound is represented by general formula CFCHCO&#x2014;CClRR(where in the formula, Rand Rare respectively independent, and are selected from a hydrogen, a halogen, a C1-2 alkyl group, or a C1-2 halogenated alkyl group).

Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A nonaqueous electrolyte includes a lithium salt, a trifluoropropionate ester of the formula (1), and a fluorinated carboxylate ester of the formula (2). The amount of (1) is not less than 10 mass % of the nonaqueous electrolyte. In the formulae, R1 is a Calkyl group, one or two of X1 to X4 are fluorine atoms, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a Calkyl group or a fluorinated Calkyl group, and R3 is a Calkyl group or a fluorinated Calkyl group. 

An acoustic image localization apparatus according to the present invention that outputs sound from a plurality of speakers so as to localize an acoustic image at a predetermined position on a space as viewed from a listener, the acoustic image localization apparatus comprising: amplitude characteristic adjusting means for adjusting an amplitude frequency characteristic of an inputted acoustic signal such that the acoustic image is localized at a position rotated by a first angle about a position of a listener toward an upper direction from a facing position of the listener; and a plurality of level adjusting means, provided so as to respectively correspond to the plurality of speakers, for adjusting a level of the acoustic signal outputted from the amplitude characteristic adjusting means and for outputting, to a corresponding speaker, the acoustic signal whose level has been adjusted, wherein each of the level adjusting means adjusts the level of the acoustic signal, which is outputted from the amplitude characteristic adjusting means, to a level of the corresponding speaker such that the acoustic image is localized at the predetermined position rotated by a second angle about the position of the listener toward one of directions orthogonal to the rotated directions from the position rotated by the first angle.

Acoustic image localization apparatus, acoustic image localization system, and acoustic image localization method, program and integrated circuit

It is an object of the present invention to provide a sound image localization apparatus which can localize a sound image with ease correctly for many listeners. Herein disclosed is a sound image localization apparatus, in which a directional band information storage unitis adapted to store therein directional bands in advance calculated for respective directions, a control filter computing unitis adapted to read a directional band corresponding to a target position information from a directional band information storage unitupon receiving target position information, calculate a control filter coefficient in such a manner that the maximum value of a sensation level for which masking is taken into consideration is matched with the directional band thus read, output the control filter coefficient to a sound image localization processing unit. Upon receiving the control filter coefficient from the control filter computing unit, the sound image localization processing unitis adapted to convolve the control filter coefficient thus received to an inputted sound source signal, carry out sound image localization processing on the sound source signal, and output a sound signal whose sound image has been localized as a sound image localization signal to a sound reproducing device, not shown, such as, for example, headphones, a speaker, and/or the like.

Sound image localization apparatus

A channel () formed in a substrate () branches into channels () at a branch point (). On this branch point, obstacles () having a columnar structure are aligned at certain intervals.

Particle manipulation unit, chip and detection device having the same, mounted thereon, and methods of separating, capturing and detecting proteins

A channel formed on a chip is opened without contaminating contents of the channel. Channels () and () provided on a substrate () are covered by pressing a lid () composed of a resin layer () and a plate-like lid () to a surface of the substrate (). A fixing device has a retainer plate (), which retains the plate-like lid () of a chip (), a board () on which the substrate () is placed, and a screw (). When covering the channels () and (), the screw () is fastened and the lid () is pressed to the substrate () to be fixed. And, when opening an upper portion of the channels () and (), the screw () is turned upward and a pressure is released, and the lid () is removed from the upper potion of the substrate ().

Chip, device using the chip, and method of using the same

The present invention relates to a sound image localizing apparatus for generating a sound image localized in an arbitrarily set three-dimensional direction. The sound image direction setting unit () is operable to set a three-dimensional direction to which the sound image is to be localized in accordance with a listener's instruction; the angle conversion unit () is operable to convert the direction into a lateral angle (&#x3b1;) and a rising angle (&#x3b2;), each of which serves as a cue for the listener to perceive the direction. The convolution operation unitis operable to obtain lateral angle control information corresponding to the lateral angle (&#x3b1;) from the lateral angle control information storage unit (), a listener's front direction head-related impulse response from the front direction head-related impulse response storage unit (), and rising angle difference information corresponding to the rising angle (&#x3b2;) from the rising angle difference information storage unit (). The convolution operation unitis then operable to convolute the sound source signal with the lateral angle control information, the front direction head-related impulse response, and the rising angle difference information, and output the operation result.

Sound image localizer

After a sample is previously separated into plural components in a channel formed in a microchip (), the channel is irradiated along a separation direction with a laser beam from a laser oscillator () to sequentially ionize each fraction separated in the channel. The ionized fraction is detected by a mass spectrometry unit () and analyzed by an analytical result analyzing unit (). The analytical result is stored in a memory () while associated with position information in a driver control unit () and information on laser beam irradiation condition in a laser control unit (), and the analytical result is imaged by an imaging unit (). The imaged analytical result is displayed on a display ().

Mass spectrometric system and mass spectrometry

A liquid sample () introduced in a main flow passage () is held in a dam portion (), and a trigger liquid () is filled in a trigger flow passage (). In this state, the trigger liquid () is further introduced at desired timing into the trigger flow passage () so that the front end portion of the level of the trigger liquid () is advanced and the front end portion is brought to be into contact with the dam portion (). This causes the liquid sample () to move to the right (downstream side) in the figure, resulting in the liquid sample () flowing out to the downstream side of the main flow passage (). This means that the trigger liquid () provides priming to realize a liquid switch.

Liquid switch, and microchip and mass-analyzing system using the same

A microchip includes a clad layer having a channel through which a sample flows, and an optical waveguide formed within the clad layer and having a higher refractive index than the clad layer. The optical waveguide is formed to act on the channel optically. Thus, the sample flowing in the channel can be analyzed with high accuracy even in the microchip having a fine structure.

Microchip, method of manufacturing microchip, and method of detecting compositions

A fractionating apparatus is used for fractionating sample into micro-structures different in size, and includes a fractionating unit formed with a fractionating passage; the fractionating passage is defined in a groove formed in a substrate of the fractionating unit, and pillar patches are formed in the groove at intervals wider than the gap among the pillar patches; while the sample is migrated through the fractionating passage, small-sized DNA molecules are trapped in the pillar patches, and large-sized DNA molecules are smoothly migrated through the wide intervals; this results in that the large-sized DNA molecules reaches the end of the fractionating passage faster than the small-sized DNA molecules without clogging.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhiro Iida