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An ECU executes a program including a step of detecting a present location using a GPS system (S1000); a step of reading out data of a geographical map proximate to the present location (S1010) and presenting in the geographical map charging installations including a charging installation employing solar light, together with the location of its vehicle (S1020); a step of, if a presentation switching request is made (YES in S1030) and a real-time solar radiation correction request is made (YES in S1050), detecting a solar radiation amount (S1060) and correcting a charge amount per unit time provided by the power generation installation employing solar light, based on the detected solar radiation amount (S1070); and a step of detecting an SOC in the battery to calculate an amount of discharge done until arrival at the charging installation (S1080, S1090), calculating time required for charging up to a fully charged state (S1100), and presenting the time required for charging in the geographical map (S1200).

A pixel cell array architecture having a multiple pixel cells with shared pixel cell components. The individual pixel cell architecture increases the fill factor and the quantum efficiency for the pixel cell. The common pixel cell components may be shared by a number of pixels in the array, and may include several components that are associated with the readout of a signal from the pixel cell. Other examples of the pixel array architecture having improved fill factor for pixels in the array include an angled transfer gate and an efficiently located, shared capacitor.

There are provided: a method for producing a toner containing to granulate a toner and to subjecting the granulated toner to at least washing with an alkali washing solution, in which the total organic carbon amount extractable from the alkali-washed toner is 200 ppm / g or less; a toner comprising polyester in which the total organic carbon amount extractable from the toner is 200 ppm / g or less, under the condition that the toner is subjected to washing with the alkali washing solution before extracting; and an image-forming method using such a toner.

An electrochemical cell including at least one nitrogen-containing compound is disclosed. The at least one nitrogen-containing compound may form part of or be included in: an anode structure, a cathode structure, an electrolyte and / or a separator of the electrochemical cell. Also disclosed is a battery including the electrochemical cell.

This invention relates to a conductive roller such as a developing roller, a charging roller or the like provided with a resin coating calyer on a surface of an elastic layer, and more particularly to a conductive roller having the resin coating layer using an ultraviolet-curing type resin or an electron beam curing type resin and being obtained by contriving a structure of the resin coating layer, rendering the resin coating layer to contain microparticles, controlling the particle size of the microparticles, or forming the resin coating layer after the outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer is subjected to surface treatment.

A method of increasing public safety by supplying widespread portable power to the general public in order to recharge their cellular phones, while providing the tracking coordinates of it's users to e-911 authorities during emergencies or disasters. The method utilizes a portable emergency service devise equipped to re-charge or operate cellular phones, as well transmit an e-911 signal to authorities when activated by a public in need. FIG. 10 shows a person in need of e-911 service or emergency recharge power releasing the devise from it's housing and carrying the power and e-911 transmitter with him to an emergency situation. FIG. 33 shows the e-911 support of the invention in use in the field. FIG. 6 shows a more commercial embodiment wherein the unit is made available to the general public in a variety of places such as bars, restaurants airports, etc. In this case the unit is sponsored by advertisers who sponsor the use of the unit by the public by being able to display their advertising message on the unit which is equipped to receive wireless transmissions that get converted to images and sound in the public view for all to see. This feature allows the unit to be offered free for all to use. Additionally in times where emergency power is not needed, the public can enjoy the convenience of recharging their phone "while out and about", facilitating peace time or non-emergency communications via cellular phone. FIG. 31 Shows as well, that the unit allows for extended customer service in the field by answering one of the largest cellular user complaints of "their phone going dead in public" Manufacturer's can now by collective sponsorship of these emergency power units help provide the public with this vital new public safety and convenience devise.

An engine system with a turbocharger is provided. The system may include an exhaust manifold having plural independent exhaust passages, each of the exhaust passages being connected to an exhaust port of a corresponding engine cylinder. The system may further include a collective part formed by gathering said independent exhaust passages in said exhaust manifold or on a downstream side of said exhaust manifold. The system may further include an exhaust turbocharger connected to a downstream side of said collective part. The system may further include a variable exhaust valve for changing each passage cross-sectional area of said independent exhaust passage at an upstream side of said collective part. The system may further include a controller for controlling said variable exhaust valve, wherein said controller is configured to perform independent exhaust throttle control for reducing a passage cross-sectional area of at least one of said independent exhaust passages.

There is provided a cleaning device for an image-forming device configured so as to be capable of preventing the image quality from deteriorating by being able to prevent the deterioration of the charging state caused by deposits of foreign matter without increasing costs. There is also provided a cleaning member that can make contact with the cleaning target-members. The cleaning member has a portion composed of melamine resin foam for making contact with at least the cleaning target members, and the melamine resin foam has an Asker F hardness of 5 to 25 points and a hardness variation of 5 points or less, and is used on the cleaning target members in a state obtained by heat compression from the original shape. The pressing member is furthermore disposed in contact with the cleaning member.

The invention relates to silicon dioxide which bears partially or fully silylated polysilicic acid chains on its surface, wherein the sum of silanol groups of the silicon dioxide surface (SiOH) and grafted-on silylating agent radicals (SiRa) is greater than the number of silanol groups on the surface of untreated silicon dioxide, where a can be 1, 2 or 3 and R can be identical or different and are each a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon radical.

A vertical trench double-diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (DMOS) field effect transistor characterized by a reduced drain-to-source resistance and a lower gate charge and providing a high transconductance and an enhanced frequency response.

The invention discloses a low-temperature self-heating method for a lithium ion battery. The method comprises the steps of determining a frequency range in which the service life of the lithium ion battery cannot be affected, and selecting frequencies of charging and discharging pulses according to the range; setting a pulse current amplitude value selection basis under a selected charging and discharging mode, and calculating a charging current amplitude value Ic and a discharging current amplitude value Id; performing no-life-loss heating on the battery to be heated according to charging and discharging pulse signals of the determined frequencies and the amplitude values, wherein the inner resistance of the self-heated battery is greatly reduced, and the charging performance is greatly improved. According to the technical scheme, the low-temperature self-heating method has the effects of high self-heating speed, obvious low-temperature performance improvement and no influence on the service life of the battery.

The invention relates to a negative pole piece, which comprises a negative pole current collector and a negative pole film layer, wherein the negative pole film layer is arranged on the negative pole current collector and comprises at least two negative pole active material layers; and the at least two negative pole active material layers are sequentially arranged on the negative pole current collector from the inside to the outside according to the lithium-ion dynamic property decreasing order of the negative pole active material layers. The invention particularly relates to the negative pole film layer of which the negative pole active material is a graphite / hard carbon and / or silicon material composite material. The graphite is compounded with the hard carbon and / or silicon material, and a multi-layer gradient of which the lithium-ion dynamic property is sequentially increased from the outside to the inside is formed, so that the negative pole piece has the effects of simultaneously improving the charging capability and increasing the energy density.

The battery pack instead of the size AA battery is loaded in a battery storage of an electronic device. The battery pack includes a battery casing, a plurality of size AAA batteries, a battery holder, a circuit board, and an induction coil electromagnetically connected to a primary coil of a battery charger cradle. The size AAA batteries are accommodated in the battery casing in a spaced-apart manner where a distance between longitudinal axes of the size AAA batteries is larger than a distance between longitudinal axes of the size AA batteries loaded in the battery storage, and a storage space is defined between the adjacent size AAA batteries. With an electronic component, mounted on the circuit board, being disposed in the storage space, the battery pack accommodates the size AAA batteries, the battery holder, the circuit board, and the induction coil in a mutually layered state in the battery casing.

The present invention provides a toner improved in dispersibility of a colorant in the toner particles and excellent in the color reproducibility including color mixability and transparency. The toner is also excellent in the stability in long-term of the chargeability and capable of forming images maintaining high image quality. The present invention provides a toner for forming a full-color image which includes at least toner particles containing a binder resin, a colorant and a wax, and inorganic fine particles, wherein the binder resin comprises a resin having polyester units which is synthesized by use of an aromatic carboxylic acid titanium compound as a catalyst, and the inorganic fine particles comprise fine titanium oxide particles.

An image forming method and an image forming apparatus are disclosed in which an electrostatic latent image is formed on a photosensitive member surface by using a two-component developer including a toner and carrier. The photosensitive member surface has a specific modulus of elastic deformation and includes a charge transport layer with a specific thickness. The toner has a specific weight-average particle diameter. The carrier has a specific volume-average particle diameter and a specific circularity, and contains 20% by number or less of particles having a value of “average circularity−2σ” where σ is standard deviation of carrier circularity.

The present invention provides a novel PHA comprising a unit containing thioether with high reactivity, and its production method. The present invention also provides polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) comprising units having defined chemical formulas (1) and (2), and at least one of four units having defined chemical formulas (3), (4), (5) and (6); its production method; a charge control agent containing the PHA; a toner binder containing the charge control agent; an electrostatic latent image developing toner; and an image forming method and an image forming apparatus using the electrostatic latent image developing toner.

The battery pack charging method charges a battery pack, which is a plurality of lithium ion rechargeable batteries connected in series, to full charge by constant current and constant voltage charging. Constant current charging is performed until total voltage reaches a prescribed total voltage. Subsequently, constant current charging is switched to constant voltage charging until full charge is reached. In addition, the voltage of each battery being charged is detected. When the voltage of any battery exceeds a first specified voltage, charging is switched to pulse charging.

A semiconductor device with high aperture ratio is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor and a capacitor having a pair of electrodes. An oxide semiconductor layer formed over the same insulating surface is used for a channel formation region of the transistor and one of the electrodes of the capacitor. The other electrode of the capacitor is a transparent conductive film. One electrode of the capacitor is electrically connected to a wiring formed over the insulating surface over which a source electrode or a drain electrode of the transistor is provided, and the other electrode of the capacitor is electrically connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode of the transistor.

The object of the present invention is to provide a toner which has sufficiently high chargeability and less toner spent to a carrier or the like even when several tens of thousands of image sheets are output, is capable of keeping high-charge property and flowability without causing substantial background smear or toner fogging, excels in low-temperature fixing property and hot-offset property, and has a wide range of fixing temperature as well as to provide a developer, an image forming apparatus, a process cartridge, and an image forming method using the toner for developing electrostatic images. The toner of the present invention comprises a colorant, and a resin, and a fluoride compound, in which the fluoride compound exists on the surfaces of toner particles, and the atomic number ratio (F / C) of fluoride atoms to carbon atoms existing on the surfaces of the toner particles is 0.010 to 0.054.

A hybrid or electric vehicle includes a lithium-ion battery and a controller. The controller is programmed to discharge the battery through an electrical load to a predetermined voltage less than a voltage associated with zero state of charge such that relative degrees of lithiation associated with the electrodes of the battery change for at least one state of charge resulting in an increase in battery maximum capacity. The controller may be on-board or off-board of the vehicle. The electrical load may be part of the vehicle or external to the vehicle.

A toner for image formation is provided, which is produced by dispersing in an aqueous solvent a toner composition which includes a composition thermally soluble in an organic solvent and a coloring agent, thereby forming toner particles, wherein the thermally soluble composition includes (a) a polyester having an acid value and (b) a metal alcolate and / a metal chelate compound. The toner is capable of attaining image fixing at a sufficiently low image fixing temperature and a sufficiently broad image fixing temperature range for use in practice. Furthermore, toner containers such as a toner cartridge and a process cartridge are provided, which are loaded with the toner. Such toner containers can be detachably mounted on an image forming apparatus.

A wireless charger includes a base unit including a base member and a rack mounted at the base member for holding a mobile electronic device, a push-pull unit including a sliding seat mounted in the base member and slidable along a predetermined sliding path and automatically lockable to the base member at an adjusted position, and a power supply unit including a power-supplying coil mounted in the sliding seat and a circuit module mounted in the base member and electrically connected with the power-supplying coil for controlling the power-supplying coil to create an alternating electromagnetic field for enabling a power-receiving coil of a loaded mobile electronic device to take power from the electromagnetic field and to convert it back into electrical current for charging a battery in the mobile electronic device.

The charge capacity of a battery for supplying electric power to a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory is increased without increasing the power source capacity.A control unit for controlling data input / output processing on a storage device is configured by combining a plurality of units which become load on a power source; and at the time of power interruption of a power source, the control unit saves data and information, which are stored in a volatile memory, to a nonvolatile memory. A battery charged by the power source supplies electric power to the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory at the time of the power interruption. When the electric power is supplied from the power source to the control unit at the time of power recovery after the power interruption, a main controller selects an activation target unit, which is to be activated, from among the plurality of units belonging to the control unit and controls activation of the selected activation target unit. A battery controller controls a charging current supplied to the battery based on surplus power indicating a difference between total power consumption by the selected activation target unit and a capacity of the power source.

A toner containing a colorant, a binder resin and a laminar inorganic mineral in which part or all of the ions present between layers are modified by organic ions. The toner can be prepared by a method including dispersing or emulsifying a toner constituent mixture liquid containing the colorant, the binder resin and / or a precursor thereof, and the laminar inorganic mineral, in an aqueous medium. The density of the laminar inorganic mineral measured by XPS for the toner surface before (A) and after(B) mixing and kneading satisfies the following relationship: A>B.

PCT No. PCT / JP97 / 01066 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 23, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 23, 1997 PCT Filed Mar. 27, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97 / 37393 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 9, 1997A lead storage battery comprising a positive electrode 11 and a negative electrode 12. The negative electrode 12 contains a negative electrode active substance to which a negative electrode additive is added. The negative electrode additive is a phenolxaminobenzene sulfonic acidxformaldehyde condensate. The above-structured lead storage battery provides a prolonged cycle life and excellent charging performance.

A magnetic carrier having a resin-containing ferrite particles each containing a porous ferrite core and a resin in pores of the porous ferrite core, wherein the porous ferrite core has a particular pore diameter corresponding to the maximum logarithmic differential pore volume in a pore diameter range from at least 0.10 μm to not more than 3.00 μm, the resistivity of the porous ferrite core is in a particular range, and the porous ferrite core contains an oxide of Mg in a particular amount and contains a particular amount of a oxide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Mn, Sr, and Ca.

Hydrophobic inorganic fine particles are provided which: does not cause melt adhesion of toner to a photosensitive member and contamination of a contact charging member; imparts excellent flowability, charging performance and durability to toner even after the toner is stored in a high-temperature, high-humidity environment over a long time period; and does not cause dripping of toner and contamination with the toner. The hydrophobic inorganic fine particles are obtained by subjecting inorganic fine particles to surface treatment with silicone oil and then with a silane compound and / or a silazane compound, or by subjecting inorganic fine particles to surface treatment with a silane compound and / or a silazane compound in the presence of silicone oil, and further subjecting the inorganic fine particles thus surface-treated to surface treatment with silicone oil.

A charging member has a surface layer. The surface layer contains a polysiloxane having a first unit, a second unit and a third unit each of which is represented by a specific formula. The ratio of the sum of the mole numbers of the first and second units to the sum of the mole numbers of the first to third units is in a specific range.