Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Toyo Tanso Co., Ltd.

National Institute of Technology

Institute of National Colleges of Technology, Japan

Polytech Kagawa, Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Okano

Kenichi Shibata

Kousuke Takeuchi

Kazuhiko Kuroki

Toshiharu Tanaka

Naoki Tanaka

Masakazu Sakata

Nobuya Misaki

Toshihiro Hosokawa

Hisaki Tarui

Hiromasa Yagi

Yasumi Kobayashi

Kuniyuki Matsui

Tatsuro Usuki

Yusuke Takahashi

Tetsuya Yuki

Koji Endo

Shingo Nakano

Gou Sajiki

Mitsunori Deguchi

Takurou Tsuruoka

Sadao Tanimoto

Tomofumi Kurosaki

Masashi Yoda

Toshikazu Tsujino

Takuro Tsuruoka

A positive electrode for an air battery that can remarkably improve the battery performance is provided by uniformly dispersing fine Nb (Nb oxide) therein. An air battery using the positive electrode as well as a method of manufacturing the positive electrode is also provided. A positive electrode for an air battery includes an expanded graphite sheet containing expanded graphite and Nb dispersed within the sheet. It is desirable that the Nb be contained in a weight proportion of from 5 ppm to 50000 ppm with respect to the expanded graphite.

Positive electrode for air battery, air battery using the positive electrode, and method of manufacturing the positive electrode

A positive electrode for an air battery and an air battery using the positive electrode are provided, that make it possible to inhibit an electrolyte solution decrease in the battery and prevent the problems associated with the electrolyte solution decrease without causing an increase in manufacturing costs. A positive electrode for an air battery includes an expanded graphite sheet. It is desirable that the expanded graphite sheet contain expanded graphite in an amount of 80 mass % or greater. It is desirable that the expanded graphite have a bulk density of from 0.2 Mg/mto 2.0 Mg/m. It is desirable that the expanded graphite sheet have a thickness of from 0.1 mm to 3.0 mm.

Positive electrode for air battery, and air battery using the positive electrode

A method selectively recovers a useful substance from waste including a chlorine-containing synthetic resin and metal copper in a mixed state. Metal copper is recovered from coated copper-wire waste. The method includes the steps of heat-treating the waste in form of coated copper wires, each having a coating material made of a chlorine-containing synthetic resin, in oil or under a non-oxygen condition. Here, the coating material is carbonized and a chlorine content of the coating material is reduced. Then the coating material and the copper wire are separated from each other the copper wire is recovered. The chlorine-containing synthetic resin can be treated without generating dioxin.

Method for recovering metal copper from coated copper wires

A method for fabricating an electrode for lithium secondary battery formed by depositing a thin film composed of active material capable of lithium storage and release, on a metallic foil to be used as a current collector, in which the surface of the metallic foil is roughened through wet-etching and then the thin film is deposited on the roughened surface.

Method for fabricating electrode for lithium secondary battery

In a surface acoustic wave device comprising a substrate of lithium tantalate or lithium niobate, and interdigital electrodes formed on the substrate and made of a thin film consisting primarily of aluminum, the interdigital electrodes are optimized in the ratio of the thickness of the film to the period of a plurality of electrode digits connected to a common terminal with propagation loss taken as an objective function. The ratio is set in the range of 0.03 to 0.10 to ensure a lower propagation loss than in the prior art.

Surface acoustic wave device with optimized ratio of film thickness to

A surface acoustic wave device adapted to attain a higher acoustic velocity than conventionally by realizing SH waves excitable at a higher frequency than the fundametal mode of Rayleigh waves. Aluminum is sputtered for deposition on the R-plane of a sapphire substrate 1 using a sputter ion source, and at the same time, the R-plane of the substrate 1 is irradiated with a nitrogen ion beam having energy of 50 to 250 eV at a current density of 0.2 to 1.0 mA/cm.sup.2 using an assist ion source to form an aluminum nitride thin film 2 on the R-plane of the substrate 1 with the [00.1] axis of the film tilted with respect to a normal to the substrate.

Acoustic wave device and process for producing same

A surface acoustic wave device comprising a single crystal silicon substrate and a piezoelectric thin film of single crystal or C-axis-oriented polycrystalline aluminum nitride formed on the surface of the substrate. The C-axis of the piezoelectric thin film is set in a direction in which the projection vector of the C-axis on a plane containing the axis of propagation direction of a surface acoustic wave and a normal axis of the substrate makes an inclination angle .theta. of up to 60 degrees with the axis of propagation direction, whereby the device is given a coupling coefficient of at least 2% is given as maximum coupling coefficient of the device.

Surface acoustic wave device

A liquid crystal chopper comprising a pair of electrically conductive substrates, a spacer keeping the substrates so as to define a space between the substrates, and a liquid crystal of DSM type which is enclosed in the space, with a dielectric anisotropy of -0.5 or more and not exceeding 0. An infrared sensor using the liquid crystal chopper in the above construction as a chopper mechanism to intermittently interrupt infrared rays incident upon the pyroelectric element. The infrared sensor has a short response time at the liquid crystal chopper and consumes less power.

Liquid crystal chopper and infrared sensor

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Hiroshi Okano