Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Panasonic Corporation

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

University of Tsukuba

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Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, Limited

Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.

Atsushi Ueda

Kazuya Iwamoto

Hizuru Koshina

Shigeo Aoyama

Takafumi Oura

Yasuhiro Takai

Hiroshi Yoshizawa

Masaki Deguchi

Shoichiro Watanabe

Hirokazu Tanaka

Hideo Yamasa

Shinji Nakanishi

Jun Nunome

Kazutaka Uchitomi

Masaharu Kimura

Norihiro Ochi

Hajime Horinaka

Hirotoshi Iemura

Shunichi Hayashiyama

Hiromu Sugiyama

Satoshi Yamamoto

Taisuke Yamamoto

Yasuhiro Ono

Masanobu Takeuchi

Takaharu Morikawa

Atsuo Nakao

Natsuhiko Mukai

Kumiko Sonoda

Shinichi Kinoshita

Minoru Kotato

Yukio Nagasaki

Masatoshi Nagayama

Fumio Shimazu

Yoshiyuki Muraoka

Ayumu Oda

Kyosuke Miyata

Hideaki Hagihara

Takaharu Motoyama

Koji Funami

Kazumichi Shimizu

Takasumi Wada

Hirokazu Fujita

Hiroki Noguchi

Makoto Masuda

Kouichi Irihara

Shinya Mori

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Hitoshi Matsumoto

Takahisa Narikiyo

Masaki Saka

Takayuki Ohno

Shigenori Morimoto

Kenzo Ohkubo

Eri Kojima

Noriyuki Kouda

Takaaki Kassai

Ryosuke Sasaki

Yutaka Ikeda

Toru Yoshitomi

Tsuneyuki Noda

Hiroshi Nishiyama

Takeshi Ikenaga

Aki Hirayama

Ryunosuke Yokoo

Md Amran Hossain

Tomoki Yoshinari

Yoshito Tajiri

Yusuke Tominaga

Shota Ikeda

Hideharu Satou

Sadahiro Hattori

Kiyomi Ishizawa

Tatsuya Yaguchi

Hideyuki Morimoto

Mayo Yamashita

This non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that is an example of an embodiment comprises a winding type electrode body for which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound with a separator interposed. The electrode body has a positive electrode lead. The positive electrode lead has: a lead base made of metal that includes a first surface joined to the positive electrode, and a second surface on the side opposite to the first surface; and an insulating ceramic layer principally comprising an inorganic compound and formed over a range within the second surface of the lead base so as to face the negative electrode with at least the separator interposed therebetween.

Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery

The present disclosure relates to astrain having polyamine production promoting activity in an organism, as well as its application and relevant technologies. The present disclosure also relates to the use of thestrain to promote polyamine production in humans and animals, which may be used, for instance, to reduce hepatic neutral fat. The present disclosure also relates to the use of thestrain as an agent to prevent or treat a disease, including fatty liver, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and liver cirrhosis.

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A battery comprises a first polarity terminal that is attached via a first insulating member to an opening of an outer case. A first polarity plate includes: a first core formed of a conductive material; and a first active material layer. A first drawn-out portion is formed from a side of the first core on the first polarity terminal side thereof being drawn further out than a side of the first active material layer on the first polarity terminal side thereof. The first drawn-out portion includes a first bent portion that is bent towards the radially inner or outer side of the electrode body. A first surface of a first polarity collector plate contacts the surface of the first bent portion on the first polarity terminal side, and the first polarity terminal connects directly or via a conductive member to a second surface of the first polarity collector plate.

Cylindrical battery

A sealed cell includes a bottomed cylindrical outer casing can. The outer casing can is formed by nickel-plated iron, and a lead connected to one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and the outer casing can, are welded by a welding part formed from the outside surface of the outer casing can toward the lead. The welding part is formed by molten traces and has a first layer and a second layer having a higher nickel concentration than the first layer. The first layer is formed from the lead through to the inside of the outer casing can, the second layer is formed so as to adjoin the first layer on the outside surface side of the outer casing can, and the whole of the first layer is covered with the second layer when the welding part is viewed from the outside of the outer casing can.

Sealed cell and method for manufacturing same

A first mirror and a second mirror are disposed on a mounting surface of a housing in an exposure device of an image forming apparatus. A back surface of the first mirror is supported by ribs and the first mirror is pressed against the ribs by elastically pressing a reflecting surface thereof by a spring member. A reflecting surface of the second mirror is supported by ribs and the second mirror is pressed against the ribs by elastically pressing a back surface thereof by a spring member.

Optical scanner and image forming apparatus

An optical scanning device provided with a casing, a plurality of light sources, a deflection scanning unit that deflects and scans light beams from the plurality of light sources onto a plurality of bodies to be scanned, and a plurality of optical units arranged between the deflection scanning unit and the bodies to be scanned, in which optical unit supporting members that support the optical units are provided, the optical unit supporting members support the plurality of optical units arranged at predetermined intervals, and a thermal expansion coefficient of the optical unit supporting members is lower than a thermal expansion coefficient of the casing.

Optical scanning device and image forming device provided with optical scanning device

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including an electrode assembly the electrode assembly being fastened with a rectangular or square fixing tape applied to cover the end of the coil, the side of the fixing tape in contact with the electrode assembly including self-adhesive portions having a pressure-sensitive adhesive and a non-adhesive portion having no pressure-sensitive adhesive, the self-adhesive portions being disposed at both ends of the non-adhesive portion in the direction of the width of the fixing tape so that the non-adhesive portion is interposed between the self-adhesive portions, the battery satisfying 0.9&#x2264;Wb/Wa&#x2264;1 and 0.35&#x2264;Wc/Wa&#x2264;0.8 wherein Wa is the height of the electrode assembly, Wb is the width of the fixing tape and Wc is the width of the non-adhesive portion.

Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same

Provided is an organic-inorganic hybrid composite of a polymerized cyclic nitroxide radical compound and inorganic nanoparticles. Such a composite is capable, for example, of maintaining a stable nanoparticle shape in gastric fluid, and can be used by itself or as a carrier for delivery of another drug to the intestines.

Organic-inorganic hybrid composite of polymerized nitroxide compound and inorganic particles

A light scanning device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements for scanning a scan object with respective light beams emitted from the respective light-emitting elements. The light scanning device includes secured sections, a first substrate, and a second substrate. To the secured sections, the respective light-emitting elements are secured. The first substrate includes a first connector. Mounting positions of the respective light-emitting elements to the first substrate are displaceable. The respective light-emitting elements are coupled to the first substrate. The second substrate includes a second connector coupled to the first connector. The first substrate and the second substrate are secured to a first specified position and a second specified position, respectively.

Light scanning device, method for manufacturing the same, and image forming apparatus with the same

Because of the composition represented by General Formula: LiNiMnMO(where 0&#x2266;x&#x2266;0.05, &#x2212;0.05&#x2266;x+&#x3b1;&#x2266;0.05, 0&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.4; &#x2212;0.1&#x2266;&#x3b4;&#x2266;0.1 (when 0&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.2) or &#x2212;0.24&#x2266;&#x3b4;&#x2266;0.24 (when 0.2&#x3c;y&#x2266;0.4); and M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Fe, Co, Cu, Zn, Al, Ge and Sn), a high-density lithium-containing complex oxide with high stability of a layered crystal structure and excellent reversibility of charging/discharging can be provided, and a high-capacity non-aqueous secondary battery excellent in durability is realized by using such an oxide for a positive electrode.

Lithium-containing complex oxide, non-aqueous secondary battery using the lithium-containing complex oxide, and method for producing the lithium-containing complex oxide

An optical scanner contains in a casing made of thermoplastic material a light source that emits an image light based on image data, and at least one optical element that is disposed in an optical path for the image light. The optical element is held through a holding member by the casing. The holding member is uprightly held at one edge portion thereof on an inside surface of the casing, and secures the optical element at the other edge portion thereof. The holding member has a shape that causes a thermal deformation in which a leaning direction of the other edge portion is opposite to a leaning direction of the one edge portion due to a thermal deformation of the inside surface of the casing when a temperature of the casing rises.

Optical scanner that forms an optical path for an image light emitted from a light source, and image forming apparatus according to an electrophotography method with a photoreceptor that undergoes an exposure to an image light from the optical scanner

An optical scanner includes a third f-theta lens, an eccentric cam, an attaching portion, a first supporting member, a second supporting member and a spring. A distance between a face opposed to the first side-face of the third f-theta lens in the first supporting member and a face opposed to the second side-face of the third f-theta lens in the second supporting member is set to be longer than a distance of the third f-theta lens in its lateral direction. The spring is disposed opposed to the first side-face or the second side-face, and presses the third f-theta lens so that the third f-theta lens is in contact with the eccentric cam and either of the first supporting member and the second supporting member.

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrodeincluding a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer including a positive electrode active material and a binder, the positive electrode mixture layer being provided on the positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode, a porous insulating layerinterposed between the positive electrodeand the negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The tensile extension of the positive electrodeis equal to or higher than 3.0%. The charge end voltage in normal operation of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is equal to or higher than 4.3 V.

Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for fabricating the same

A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte contains a non-aqueous solvent, a solute dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, and hydrogenated terphenyl, the solute includes a boron-containing alkali salt and a boron-free alkali salt, the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material comprising a randomly oriented carbon composite (A), and the carbon composite (A) contains a graphitic carbon substance (B) and a carbon substance (C) that is different from the graphitic carbon substance (B).

In an exposure unit including: a laser scanning unit emitting a multiple number of beams; a polygon mirror for deflecting the multiple beams by reflection with the same facet; an optical system including optical elements for leading the beams correspondingly to a multiple number of photoreceptor drums laid out along an auxiliary scan direction, the bottom of a casing of the exposure unit to which the polygon mirror and the optical elements arranged along the directions of the beams emitted from the polygon mirror are attached is constructed so that the attachment portions of individual optical elements for each beam are differentiated in thickness from the areas where no attachment portion is formed.

Light scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same

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Atsushi Ueda