Sony Corporation

Kenji Ogisu

Shin-Ichi Tokumoto

Eiji Tanaka

Haruo Watanabe

Masanori Soma

Tomoyo Ooyama

Yosuke Hosoya

Hideto Azuma

Toshiro Tsumori

Tatsuo Kikuchi

Masahisa Enomoto

Shuichi Kikuchi

Hiroji Kawai

Daiki Kobayashi

Tadao Fujita

Makoto Inoue

Kenji Yazawa

Kenji Shimokuni

Haruko Masuya

A cathode active material capable of increasing a capacity and improving high temperature characteristics or cycle characteristics, a method of manufacturing it, a cathode using the cathode active material, and a battery using the cathode active material are provided. In a cathode active material contained in a cathode, a coating layer is provided on at least part of complex oxide particle containing at least lithium (Li) and cobalt (Co). The coating layer is an oxide which contains lithium (Li) and at least one of nickel (Ni) and manganese (Mn).

Cathode active material, method of manufacturing it, cathode, and battery

A cathode active material is provided. The cathode active material includes: a composite oxide particle including at least lithium and cobalt; a coating layer which is provided in at least a part of the composite oxide particle and includes an oxide including lithium and a coating element of at least one of nickel and manganese; and a surface layer which is provided in at least a part of the coating layer and includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of silicon, tin, phosphorus, magnesium, boron, zinc, tungsten, aluminum, titanium, and zirconium.

Cathode active material, its manufacturing method, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A cathode active material capable of increasing a capacity and improving high temperature characteristics or cycle characteristics, a method of manufacturing it, a cathode using the cathode active material, and a battery using the cathode active material are provided. In a cathode active material contained in a cathode, a coating layer is provided on at least part of a complex oxide particle containing at least lithium (Li) and cobalt (Co). The coating layer is an oxide which contains lithium (Li) and at least one of nickel (Ni) and manganese (Mn).

A cathode active material capable of improving chemical stability, a method for producing the same, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same which has high capacity and good charge-discharge cycling characteristics is provided. The cathode has a cathode active material. The cathode active material includes a coating layer formed on at least a part of the composite oxide particle, the coating layer including an oxide including lithium and an oxide including a coating element of nickel, or nickel and manganese, and a surface layer formed on at least a part of the coating layer and containing molybdenum.

Cathode active material, method for producing the same, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A disk cartridge in which a disk is loaded is formed with composite synthetic resin including at least two types of thermoplastic resin, an anti-static polymer, and an inorganic filler, heat-deforming temperatures of at least two types of the thermoplastic resin mutually differing. The disk cartridge is provided by a method comprising the steps of mixing at least two types of thermoplastic resin to provide a mixture, heat-deforming temperatures of at least two types of the thermoplastic resin mutually differing, mixing an inorganic filler with a mixture of at least two types of the thermoplastic resin, mixing an anti-static polymer with the mixture of at least two types of the thermoplastic resin including the inorganic filler to provide a composite synthetic resin, injection molding the composite synthetic resin to provide component parts of the disk cartridge, and assembling the component parts to form the disk cartridge with the disk loaded therein.

Disk cartridge and manufacturing method thereof

A write area (10) is formed as a writable area on a recording medium accommodating cassette by a printing process using a printing ink containing a proper amount of protein powder made of natural collagen as a main component. In the write area (10), owing to hydrophilic group of the protein powder, even when something is written therein with a water base pen, its ink can be prevented from being floated therefrom and hence the writing can be carried out satisfactorily.

Cassette for accommodating a recording medium

A method of preparing gamma ferric hydroxyoxide in which ferrous ions are reacted in an alkaline solution to produce a suspension of ferric hydroxide, the resulting suspension is treated with an oxidizing gas in a first oxidizing step at a relatively high oxidation rate, sufficient to cause nucleation of gamma ferric hydroxyoxide to occur, and then the oxidation rate is reduced in a second oxidizing step to cause crystal growth to occur on the nuclei formed in the first oxidizing step. The resulting product has magnetic and physical characteristics making it extremely suitable for use in the manufacture of magnetic recording media.

Method of preparing gamma ferric hydroxyoxide powder

In a process for electrodeposition of a metal or alloy, there is provided in a fused salt electrolytic bath a rotary drum device comprising a relatively rotatable cooling drum and scraper, salt particles deposited on the surface of the cooling drum being scraped off within the bath and dispersed in the bath thereby to assist the production of a smooth and compact electrodeposit.

Electrodeposition process & apparatus

An electroposition process wherein solid metallic particles are produced in a fused salt electrolytic bath and dispersed therein to electrodeposit a metal or alloy thereof on a cathode so that the surface of the deposit is maintained smooth and flat. In order to produce particles of a desired metal or alloy, an auxiliary electrolytic means may be provided within an electrolytic cell so that such particles are generated in situ within the fused bath of such cell.

Electrodeposition process

A high valency salt, such as TiCl.sub.4 is reduced to a lower valency salt, such as TiCl.sub.2 and/or TiCl.sub.3 within a fused salt electrolytic bath via electrolysis so that an improved electrodeposition of a desired metal or alloy, such as Ti, occurs, from such adjusted bath. The process generally comprises adding a higher valency salt of a desired metal or alloy to a fused salt electrolytic bath, reducing the higher valency salt on a cathode electrode to a lower valency salt, removing the so-produced lower valency salt from the electrode surface and maintaining a predetermined amount of the lower valency salt within the electrolytic bath. Electrodeposition of a desired metal or alloy may then take place from such electrolytic bath containing a so-adjusted amount of the lower valency salt.

Method of adjusting a fused salt electrolytic bath

In the electrodeposition of titanium metal from an electrolyte containing one or more dissolved or fused titanium chlorides and other dissolved or fused chloride salts, such as, MgCl.sub.2,CaCl.sub.2,NaCl, and the like; the hardness of the electrodeposited titanium is adjusted by adding to the electrolyte one or more oxides, such as titanium oxide and oxides of alkaline and alkaline-earth metals, and/or one or more fluorides of alkaline and alkaline-earth metals.

Method of adjusting the hardness of a titanium metal

An electrodeposition method of electrodepositing a material with a flat and smooth surface, in which an electrolytic condition such as a speed of movement of a cathode relative to an electrolyte, an electrolytic current density, a duty ratio of an interrupted electrolytic current or an interruption frequency of an electrolytic current is changed periodically from a normal value to another value and back again.

Electrodepositing method

An electrolyzer is provided with a vessel containing an electrolyte and in which a lower temperature portion and a higher temperature portion are respectively defined, and with stirring devices or the like for forming circular flows of the electrolyte within the lower and higher temperature portions respectively and for circulating the electrolyte between the lower and higher temperature portions to permit the electrolysis to be carried out.

Electrolyzer

In an electrodeposition process using a fused-salt electrolyte in which a desired metal or alloy deposited by electrolysis can be dissolved, and/or using a fused-salt electrolyte from which a highly viscous material is produced on the surface of an electrodeposited metal or alloy upon electrodeposition of the desired metal or alloy, solid particles are dispersed in the aforesaid electrolyte in order to obtain a flat surface of the desired electrodeposited metal or alloy, whereby continuous electrodeposition can be carried out.

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Kenji Ogisu