Toshiba

A liquid heating device (1a) includes: a container (3) having a space inside; a plate-shaped base part (121) including a first portion (121a) in the space, and a second portion (121b) at a periphery of the first portion and exposed outside the container; a heating element (23a) on a first side of the first portion; a terminal (23b1) on the first side of the second portion; a connection part (23b2) on the first side of the first portion and the second portion, and electrically connected to the heating element and the terminal; a protection part (24) on the first side of the first portion and the second portion, covering the heating element and the connection part, and exposing the terminal; and a sealing part (4) between the container and the second portion, and provided at an end portion on an upper side in a gravity direction of the container.

An information processing apparatus (100) includes a processing unit. The processing unit generates a first transformation rule for transforming, for each of one or more first properties among one or more properties included in a first data model, the first property into a second property among one or more properties included in a second data model based on a semantic similarity between the properties included in the first data model and the properties included in the second data model. The processing unit generates a second transformation rule for transforming, for each of the one or more first properties, a first element including a definition of the first property among elements included in a first metamodel of the first data model into a second element including a definition of the second property among elements included in a second metamodel of the second data model.

According to one embodiment, an effective range providing apparatus, a structure evaluation apparatus, a structure evaluation system, and an effective range providing method that enable an effective evaluation result to be obtained are provided. According to an embodiment, the effective range providing apparatus includes an effective range determiner and a provider. The effective range determiner determines an effective range for evaluation within a target area serving as an evaluation target for a deterioration state in a structure based on shape information about a shape of the structure on which a vehicle can travel and vehicle information about the vehicle traveling on the structure. The provider provides information indicating the effective range determined by the effective range determiner.

A membrane electrode assembly includes an anode having an anode catalyst layer, a cathode having a cathode catalyst layer, and an electrolyte membrane provided between the anode and the cathode. An ion exchange equivalent weight of the electrolyte membrane is equal to or higher than an ion exchange equivalent weight of the cathode catalyst layer. An ion exchange equivalent weight of the anode catalyst layer is higher than the ion exchange equivalent weight of the cathode catalyst layer and is equal to or higher than the ion exchange equivalent weight of the electrolyte membrane.

A membrane electrode assembly includes: an anode; a cathode; and an electrolyte membrane provided between the anode and cathode. The anode includes: a porous and conductive anode conductive transport layer; and an anode catalyst layer provided between the anode conductive transport layer and the electrolyte membrane. The anode catalyst layer includes first sheet layers and first gap layers, each first sheet layer and each first gap layer being alternately stacked. The cathode includes a porous and conductive cathode conductive transport layer, and a cathode catalyst layer provided between the cathode conductive transport layer and the electrolyte membrane. The cathode catalyst layer includes second sheet layers and second gap layers, each second sheet layer and each second gap layer being alternately stacked. A porosity of the cathode conductive transport layer is higher than a porosity of the anode conductive transport layer.

A layered body according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a first intermediate layer provided on the substrate, and a first transparent electrode provided on the first intermediate layer. The refractive index of the first intermediate layer is lower than the refractive index of the substrate. The refractive index of the first intermediate layer is lower than the refractive index of the first transparent electrode.

A solar cell module according to an embodiment comprises a substrate; a first solar cell provided on the substrate; a first solar cell including a first upper transparent electrode layer, a first power generation layer, and a first lower transparent electrode layer; a second solar cell provided on the substrate, adjacent to the first solar cell, the second solar cell including a second upper transparent electrode layer, a second power generation layer, and a second lower transparent electrode layer; and a first metal interconnection wiring that electrically connects the first solar cell and the second solar cell. The first upper transparent electrode layer and the second upper transparent electrode layer are provided on the light incident side, and the first solar cell and the second solar cell are arranged in a first direction extending along the width direction of the first solar cell. The first lower transparent electrode layer, the first power generation layer, and the first upper transparent electrode layer are stacked in that order from the substrate side. The second lower transparent electrode layer, the second power generation layer, and the second upper transparent electrode layer are stacked in that order from the substrate side. The first metal interconnection wiring has a portion that extends in the stacking direction. The first lower transparent electrode layer and the second upper transparent electrode layer are electrically connected through the first metal interconnection wiring. The first metal interconnection wiring is physically separated from the first upper transparent electrode layer.

A solar cell according to an embodiment includes a first transparent electrode, a p-type light absorbing layer provided on the first transparent electrode, a first n-type layer provided on the p-type light absorbing layer, a second n-type layer provided on the first n-type layer, a second transparent electrode provided on the second n-type layer, and an antireflection layer provided on the second transparent electrode. The refractive index of the second n-type layer is higher than the refractive index of the first n-type layer. The second n-type layer comprises a titanium-including metal oxide.

According to one arrangement, a processing device (20) receives first deterioration information on a power storage module (111) from a first controller (112) connected to the power storage module (111). The processing device (20) receives second deterioration information on the power storage module (111) from a second controller that is connected to the first controller (112) and directly or indirectly controls the first controller (112). The processing device (20) compares the first deterioration information with the second deterioration information, and outputs output information on whether there is a possibility that the first deterioration information or the second deterioration information has been falsified.

To provide a reactor control system capable of achieving an efficient operation of a reactor. In a reactor control system in an embodiment, an inverse analysis part finds, as medium performance distribution data, a medium performance distribution in which performance of a medium changes in a flow direction in which a reactant introduction fluid and an adsorption substance introduction fluid pass through the medium by executing an inverse analysis regarding reactant introduction fluid measurement data, adsorption substance introduction fluid measurement data, and discharge fluid measurement data. A control part executes output of a control signal based on the medium performance distribution data.