Adeka Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Sony Corporation

Namco Limited

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Dic Corporation

Toru Yano

Koichi Shigeno

Yohei Aoyama

Mitsuhiro Okada

Masahiro Shinkai

Atsushi Monden

Junji Tanabe

Kenji Kakiage

Kensaku Akimoto

Yutaka Wada

Masatsugu Suwabe

Ryosuke Takeuchi

Yusuke Kubota

Yuta Nohara

Ryo Taniuchi

Minoru Hanaya

Masafumi Unno

Hiroaki Watanabe

Daisuke Sawamoto

Keiji Oya

Koichi Sakamaki

Hiroyuki Osada

Tomoaki Saiki

Tomofumi Yokomizo

Junko Shimada

Hideyuki Yokota

Akihiro Itakura

Satoshi Yanagisawa

Masatomi Irisawa

Ken Matsumoto

Takeshi Fujikawa

Toshihiro Akimori

Hideo Sakamoto

Toshimitsu Kumazawa

Takashi Koiso

Mineki Hasegawa

Shuichiro Imahara

Tatsuya Ishida

Takeyasu Yamamoto

Ryusei Shingaki

Yoshiyuki Sakamoto

Shuuichiro Imahara

Masuya Oishi

Masatoshi Takai

Yukiko Mae

Shinya Umeno

Sayaka Akiyama

Tsutomu Kiyono

Atsushi Shiibashi

Tomomi Seri

Takahiko Abe

Hikaru Tateishi

Provided is a composite material that has improved dispersibility of an exfoliated layered substance in a resin or the like and can thus significantly improve the properties, such as impact resistance, of a synthetic resin. A composite material in which the surface of an exfoliated layered substance is coated with a compound having a reactive group, wherein the compound having a reactive group is a compound having at least one reactive group selected from the group consisting of an epoxy group, an oxetanyl group, an isocyanate group, an acrylic group, a methacrylic group, a vinyl ether group, a vinyl ester group, and a hydrolyzable silyl group, and the compound having a reactive group is contained in an amount of 0.1 to 100 parts by mass, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the exfoliated layered substance.

Composite material

Provided is a method for producing a composite material in which the dispersibility of an exfoliated layered substance in a resin or the like is improved and with which a synthetic resin having significantly improved properties, such as impact resistance, can be obtained. A method for producing a composite material including an exfoliated layered substance and a coating substance coating a surface of the exfoliated layered substance includes a disintegrating step of disintegrating secondary particles of an exfoliated layered substance in a solution containing a coating substance, or a method for producing a composite material including an exfoliated layered substance and a coating substance coating a surface of the exfoliated layered substance includes a disintegrating step of disintegrating secondary particles of an exfoliated layered substance in a solvent and a dissolving step of dissolving a coating substance in a dispersion containing the exfoliated layered substance that has been disintegrated.

Method for producing composite material

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to detect a state of a device by applying device information on the device to a state detection model generated based on past device information on the device and characteristic information indicating characteristics of a moving body equipped with the device.

Information processing apparatus and method

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: receiving circuitry and the controlling circuitry. The receiving circuitry receives operation data of an energy system being capable of inputting and outputting power to and from a power line to which a power system and a load are connected, and the energy system including a hydrogen production apparatus producing hydrogen, a first hydrogen accumulation apparatus accumulating the hydrogen, a first power generation apparatus generating power using the hydrogen accumulated in the first hydrogen accumulation apparatus, and a storage battery capable of charging and discharging. The controlling circuitry determines a process to be preferentially executed among at least two of processes of generating power in the first power generation apparatus, producing hydrogen in the hydrogen to be accumulated apparatus, charging the storage battery, discharging the storage battery, transmitting power to the power system, and receiving power from the power system.

Renewal energy hydrogen system

An air conditioning control device as an aspect of the present invention includes a processor configured to execute a program to provide at least a control period calculator and a control instructor. The control period calculator calculates, based on control history about control over an air conditioning device and operation history about operations of the air conditioning device, a control period during which the control is maintained. The control instructor gives an instruction to the air conditioning device to cause the control to be maintained until the control period elapses after start of the control.

Air conditioning control device, air conditioning control method and non-transitory computer readable medium

Disclosed is a nonaqueous secondary battery having a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a lithium salt dissolved in an organic solvent, in which the positive electrode active material is preferably a manganese-containing, lithium transition metal oxide salt. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains at least one compound of general formula (1), preferably at least one compound of general formula (1'). The content of the compound of formula (1) or (1&#x2032;) in the nonaqueous electrolyte is preferably 0.001 to 10 mass %. The symbols in formulae (1) and (1&#x2032;) are as defined in the description.

Nonaqueous electrolyte solution and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

Provided are a nonaqueous electrolyte excellent in the prevention of overcharge and capable of retaining a small internal resistance and a high electrical capacity even after charge/discharge cycles and a nonaqueous secondary battery using the same. Specifically, the nonaqueous electrolyte is a lithium salt solution in an organic solvent and contains at least one compound having general formula (1), and the nonaqueous secondary battery includes a negative electrode capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium, a positive electrode containing a transition metal and lithium, and the nonaqueous electrolyte. The details of formula (1) are also provided.

Nonaqueous electrolyte and nonaqueous secondary battery

Provided are an additive for an electrolytic composition which can suppress the decrease of a short-circuit current and improve an open circuit voltage as compared to the case when conventional 4-TBpy is used as an additive for an electrolytic composition, and an electrolytic composition using this additive and a dye-sensitized solar cell. The additive for an electrolytic composition for use in a dye-sensitized solar cell contains a pyridine derivative having a pyridine ring into which an alkylsilyl group is introduced, and it is preferable that this pyridine derivative has an alkylsilyl group at the 4-position of the pyridine ring, and it is more preferable that the pyridine derivative is 4-(trimethylsilyl) pyridine.

Additive for electrolytic composition, electrolytic composition using this additive, and dye-sensitized solar cell

Disclosed is a novel compound represented by formula (1) below. In the formula, A represents an optionally substituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring or aromatic heterocyclic group, B represents a group including a chain of one to four pieces of one or more groups selected from groups represented by specific formulae (B-1) to (B-13) (such as &#x2014;C&#x2550;C&#x2014; or &#x2014;N&#x2550;N&#x2014;, specifically see the description), R1 to R3 each represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbon or hydrocarbonoxy group, at least one of R1 to R3 represents an optionally substituted hydrocarbonoxy group, R4 and R5 each represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, R4 and R5 may be linked together to form a ring, and R4 and R5 may be each independently linked with A to form a ring 

Compound and photoelectric conversion device

A dye-sensitized solar cell including a working electrode having a photocatalytic film, a counter electrode, and an electrolyte-containing layer or solid charge-transfer layer containing a basic compound, wherein the photocatalytic film includes an oxide semiconductor layer containing a dye compound represented by the following formula (1), 

Dye-sensitized solar cell

Provided are a polymerizable liquid crystal composition, a coating material, a medium, and a polarizing device each produced using a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a colorant and each capable of producing polarized light suitable for polarizing devices, and also a novel naphtholactam derivative, a novel coumarin derivative, a novel Nile Red derivative, and a novel anthracene derivative each suitable for use as the colorant. Specifically provided are a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing (A) at least one liquid crystal compound having a polymerizable functional group, (B) at least one colorant, and (C) a polymerization initiator, and a novel naphtholactam derivative of formula (IV'), a novel coumarin derivative of formula (VI&#x2032;), a novel Nile Red derivative of formula (VII&#x2032;), and a novel anthracene derivative of formula (VIII&#x2032;) each suitable for use as the colorant (B).

Polymerizable liquid crystal composition, polarized light-emitting coating material, novel naphtholactam derivative novel coumarin derivative, novel nile red derivative, and novel anthracene derivative

Disclosed is a p-type organic semiconductive material that is easy to produce and that has a high planarity in its polymer skeleton, and also provides a photoelectric conversion material, a photoelectric conversion layer, a photoelectric conversion element, and an organic thin film solar cell each having high photoelectric conversion efficiency and using the p-type organic semiconductive material. Specifically, the invention provides a bibenzo[b]furan compound having at least one constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1) or (2), as well as a photoelectric conversion material, a photoelectric conversion layer, a photoelectric conversion element, and an organic thin film solar cell each using that compound for a p-type organic semiconductive material. (In the formulae, Rand Reach represent a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom, a bromine atom, an iodine atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, an optionally substituted hydrocarbonoxy group, or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group.)

Bibenzo[B]furan compound, photoelectric conversion material, and photoelectric conversion element

A photoelectric conversion device that includes a work electrode, an opposed electrode, and an electrolyte-containing layer. In the work electrode, a metal oxide semiconductor layer supporting a dye is provided. The dye contains a cyanine compound that has a methine chain, an indolenine skeleton bonded with both ends of the methine chain, and anchor groups introduced to a nitrogen atom included in the indolenine skeleton. Electron injection efficiency to the metal oxide semiconductor layer is improved, and the dye is hardly exfoliated from the metal oxide semiconductor layer.

Dye for photoelectric conversion device and photoelectric conversion device

Disclosed is a novel compound represented by formula (1) below. In the formula, A represents an optionally substituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring or aromatic heterocyclic group, B represents a group including a chain of one to four pieces of one or more groups selected from groups represented by specific formulae (B-1) to (B-13) (such as &#x2014;C&#x2550;C&#x2014; or &#x2014;N&#x2550;N&#x2014;, specifically see the description), R1 to R3 each represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbon or hydrocarbonoxy group, at least one of R1 to R3 represents an optionally substituted hydrocarbonoxy group, R4 and R5 each represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, R4 and R5 may be linked together to form a ring, and R4 and R5 may be each independently linked with A to form a ring. 

A collecting unit collects detection information of human bodies present in plural rooms. The calculating unit calculates movement probabilities at which at least one of individual persons moves from one of two rooms to the other and from the other room to the one room, based on a time difference between human body detections for two rooms and a parameter depending on a movement distance between the two rooms. An updating unit calculates, for each of the rooms, first and second movement probabilities of each of the individual persons, each being a movement probability from the room to each of the other rooms and being a movement probability from each of the other rooms to the room, and updates the in-room probability of each of the individual persons for each of the rooms based on the first and second movement probabilities.

In-room probability estimating apparatus, method therefor and program

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