Sony Corporation

Fujitsu Corporation

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Meiji Co., Ltd.

Ube Industries, Inc.

Fusion Lighting, Inc.

Hiroshi Horiuchi

Tadahiko Kubota

Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Tamotsu Yamamoto

Masami Tsutsumi

Kenichi Kawase

Masayuki Ihara

Tsutomu Miyashita

Takakazu Hirose

Hideki Nakai

Takehiko Tanaka

Nobuko Inoue

Hiroshi Imoto

Yukako Teshima

Akira Yamaguchi

Shigeru Suzuki

Isao Watanabe

Atsushi Kajita

Atsumichi Kawashima

Nao Takagi

Motoshu Miyajima

Kumiko Takagi

Naoki Orii

Takefumi Ichimura

Nobuyuki Iwane

Hiroshi Echizen

Makoto Yamaguchi

Katsuhiro Yamashita

Hideki Kitada

Keiji Fukuzawa

Yukio Takigawa

Masanori Soma

Masaki Yoshio

Kensuke Yoshida

Norio Ito

Hideya Yoshitake

Noriaki Negishi

Takizo Shioda

Hideo Ohtomo

Hirofumi Watani

Nobuaki Santo

Akira Yano

Yoshiharu Narahara

Yutaka Kitamura

A secondary battery includes an outer package member, a battery device, a positive electrode terminal, a negative electrode terminal, and a fixing member. The outer package member has flexibility. The battery device has an elongated shape, and is contained inside the outer package member. The battery device includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode terminal is coupled to the positive electrode, and is led out to an outside of the outer package member. The negative electrode terminal is coupled to the negative electrode, and is led out to the outside of the outer package member. The fixing member is disposed between the outer package member and the battery device, and is adhered to each of the outer package member and the battery device. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are opposed to each other and are wound in a first direction.

Secondary battery

In a preparation step, raw material milk is prepared. In a lactose degradation step, at least part of lactose included in the prepared raw material milk is degraded using a lactose-degrading enzyme. The lactose concentration in the raw material milk in which lactose is degraded is not more than 2.5% by mass with respect to a total amount of the raw material milk. A lactic acid bacterium is added to the raw material milk in which at least part of lactose is degraded, and the raw material milk to which the lactic acid bacterium is added is fermented.

Fermented milk and method for manufacturing fermented milk

A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer that includes a positive electrode active material, a fluorine-based binder having a melting point from 152° C. to 166° C., a conductive assistant having a specific surface area from 1000 m/g to 1500 m/g, and a vinylpyrrolidone-based polymer.

A battery includes a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator; and an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer is provided between the positive electrode and the separator and includes one or both of a fluororesin and a particle. The positive electrode has a positive electrode active material layer including a fluorine-based binder having a melting point of 166&#xb0; C. or less, and a content of the fluorine-based binder in the positive electrode active material layer is from 0.5% by mass to 2.8% by mass.

Positive electrode, battery, battery pack, electronic device, electric motor vehicle, power storage device, and power system

A separator which includes a covering layer in which a fine framework of polyolefin resin is coated with a glass layer and an exposed layer in which the polyolefin resin is exposed is provided. A battery is provided having a cathode and an anode, an electrolyte, and a separator where the separator has the covering layer in which the fine framework of polyolefin resin is coated with the glass layer and a method for manufacturing a separator including the step of coating a fine framework of polyolefin resin with the glass layer by applying a precursor containing viscous liquid product which contains only polysilazane compound or a mixture of viscous liquid product which contains only polysilazane compound with polycarbosilazane compound to the polyolefin resin and placing the precursor applied polyolefin resin in a water bath to dry.

Separator, battery and electronic device

A battery including an anode with an anode active material layer that includes anode active material particles made of an anode active material including at least one of silicon and tin as an element. An oxide-containing film including an oxide of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium and tin is formed in a region of the surface of each anode active material particle in contact with an electrolytic solution by a liquid-phase method such as a liquid-phase deposition method. The region in contact with the electrolytic solution of the surface of each anode active material particle is covered with the oxide-containing film. The thickness of the oxide-containing film is preferably within a range from 0.1 nm to 500 nm both inclusive.

Battery with anode active material with oxide coating on active particles

A separator which includes a covering layer in which a fine framework of polyolefin resin is coated with a glass layer and an exposed layer in which the polyolefin resin is exposed is provided. A battery is provided having a cathode and an anode, an electrolyte, and a separator where the separator has the covering layer in which the fine framework of polyolefin resin is coated with the glass layer.

Separator including glass layer covering polyolefin resin layer having a three-dimensional mesh framework, and battery using the same

An electrolytic solution and a battery capable of improving cycle characteristics are provided. A separator is impregnated with an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution includes a cyclic carbonate derivative having a halogen atom such as 4-fluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one or 4-chloro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one and a cyclic imide salt such as 1,1,2,2,3,3-hexafluoropropane-1,3-disulfonimide lithium. Thereby, the decomposition reaction of the electrolytic solution can be inhibited, and the cycle characteristics can be improved.

Electrolytic solution and battery

An anode active material including anode active material particles including silicon, tin, or both and at least partially coated with an oxide-containing film including an oxide of silicon, germanium, tin, or a combination of them formed by a liquid-phase method such as a liquid-phase deposition method. A region of the particles in contact with the electrolytic solution is covered with the oxide-containing film, to thereby improve the chemical stability of the anode and the charge-discharge efficiency. The thickness of the oxide-containing film is preferably within a range from 0.1 nm to 500 nm both inclusive.

Method of manufacturing anode active material with oxide coating on active particles

An anode in which an anode active material layer is arranged on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer includes anode active material particles made of an anode active material including at least one of silicon and tin as an element. An oxide-containing film including an oxide of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium and tin is formed in a region in contact with an electrolytic solution of the surface of each anode active material particle by a liquid-phase method such as a liquid-phase deposition method. The region in contact with the electrolytic solution of the surface of each anode active material particle is covered with the oxide-containing film, to thereby improve the chemical stability of the anode and the charge-discharge efficiency. The thickness of the oxide-containing film is preferably within a range from 0.1 nm to 500 nm both inclusive.

Anode and battery with improved charge-discharge efficiency and method manufacturing the same

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a fermented milk, in which fermentation is accelerated without using a fermentation accelerator or the like and a novel fermented milk obtained by the production method having a hard texture that does not collapse during the distribution stage while having thickness and mildness which are not exhibited by conventional products. As a result of study, it was found that the fermentation efficiency can be improved by reducing the oxygen dissolved in a raw material mix of the fermented milk at the start of fermentation through replacement thereof with an inert gas, and that fermentation in that condition at usual temperature leads to a method for producing a fermented milk by which the fermentation time is shortened thereby to improve the productivity, and fermentation at a temperature lower than usual leads to a method for producing a fermented milk by which a novel fermented milk that has a thick and mild taste superior to that of a fermented milk with a mild taste produced through conventional low-temperature and long-term fermentation and also has a hard texture that does not collapse during the distribution stage is obtained in usual fermentation time, and leads to such a fermented milk produced by the method. Thus the invention has been completed.

Process for producing fermented milk and fermented milk

An anode wherein the anode active material layer includes anode active material particles made of an anode active material including at least one of silicon and tin as an element. An oxide-containing film including an oxide of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium and tin is formed in a region in contact with an electrolytic solution of the surface of each anode active material particle. The region in contact with the electrolytic solution of the surface of each anode active material particle is covered with the oxide-containing film.

Anode and method of manufacturing the same, and battery and method of manufacturing the same

A battery capable of ensuring storage characteristics and overcharge characteristics is provided. The battery comprising a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The cathode has a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer provided on the cathode current collector. The cathode active material layer includes an aromatic compound having three or more benzene rings. The electrolytic solution includes at least one of an ester carbonate containing a halogen and an ester carbonate containing an unsaturated bond.

Battery

The present invention relates to a process for producing fermented milk, including adding to a milk mix a starter in an amount of from 0.2 to 0.8% by weight with respect to the total amount of the milk mix, reducing the dissolved oxygen concentration in said mix to 5 ppm or less and conducting a fermentation after said addition of the starter and said reduction of the dissolved oxygen concentration

Process for producing fermented milk

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Fukushima, Japan

Hiroshi Horiuchi