Nec Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Nippon Steel Corporation

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel & Sumikin Materials Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel Stainless Steel Corporation

Renasas Electronics Corporation

Koichi Nose

Masayuki Mizuno

Koichiro Noguchi

Atsufumi Shibayama

Yoichi Yoshida

Yoshifumi Ikenaga

Yasuto Goto

Kohei Tokuda

Masaharu Ibaragi

Hiroto Unno

Shunsuke Okumura

Yoshio Kameda

Shuji Nagasaki

Yuichi Sato

Yoshihiro Nakagawa

Kiyokazu Ishizuka

Shunichi Kaeriyama

Eisuke Saneyoshi

Makoto Nakazawa

Yoshitaka Nishiyama

Hideya Kaminaka

Haruya Ishizaki

Junko Imamura

Tetsuo Ishitsuka

Kouichi Yamaguchi

Jun Maki

Hiroaki Ohkubo

Masayuki Furumiya

Takehiro Takahashi

Keishi Ohashi

Hitoshi Asahi

Tatsuo Nagata

Shinichi Terashima

Noriko Yamada

Kenichiro Hijioka

Nobuo Kadowaki

Fuyuki Okamoto

Naoki Fujimoto

Kenichi Nishi

Toru Inaguma

Mikihiro Kajita

Toru Nakura

Yasuhide Morimoto

Susumu Kitagawa

Satoru Tomisawa

Hiroyuki Ogawa

Akinobu Kobayashi

Jun Nakatsuka

Hiroshi Sato

Yu Murai

Hiroshi Kajiro

Naoya Sawaki

Toshinobu Ono

Ryotaro Matsuda

Kohei Maejima

Sawako Yamaguchi

Yuya Takashima

Yutaka Matsuzawa

Haruka Sato

A battery case and method of production of the same realizing smaller size, higher mountability, longer service life, and lower cost than in the past, that is, a battery case comprising a container body and a container cover, in which battery case, one or both of the container body and the container cover are made from a laminated steel sheet comprised of a plated steel sheet on which a film having a polyolefin-based resin as a main constituent is laminated, a joined part of the container body and the container cover has a welded part of the plated steel sheet, a melt bonded part of the film, and a gap part between the welded part and the melt bonded part, where a length of gap part/thickness of plated steel sheet ≤10.0 and a length of gap part/length of joined part <0.50, and at least part of the inside surface of the battery case is covered by the film, and a method of production of the same.

Battery case and method of production of same

A data processing device includes: an input data determining unit configured to determine whether or not each of binarized input data is a predetermined value; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of coefficients and coefficient address information including information related to coefficient addresses where the plurality of coefficients are stored; a control unit configured to read the coefficient address from the storage unit based on a determination result of the input data determining unit and read the coefficient from the storage unit based on the coefficient address; and an arithmetic unit configured to execute an arithmetic operation related to the coefficient acquired by the control unit.

Data processing device for neural network, method of operating the same, and program

A titanium material including a base metal made of pure titanium or a titanium alloy and a titanium oxide film formed on the base metal. Peak intensities obtained by thin-film X-ray diffraction analysis performed on an outer layer of the titanium material using an incident angle of 0.3&#xb0; satisfy (I(104)+I(200))/I(101)&#x2265;0.08&#x2212;0.004&#xd7;I(200), where I(104) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (104) of a TiOphase, I(200) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (200) of a TiO phase, I(101) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (101) of an &#x3b1;-Ti phase, and 0&#x3c;I(104), 0&#x2264;I(200), and 0&#x3c;I(101). The titanium material is inexpensive and has both the electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance.

Titanium material, separator, cell, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack

Provided are a stainless steel sheet with good corrosion resistance, low contact resistance and good press workability without the use of expensive materials such as gold or rare metals, and a method of manufacture the same. A method of manufacturing a stainless steel sheet includes: preparing a slab having a chemical composition including, in mass %: 20 to 26% Cr, up to 0.1% N, up to 2.0% Si, etc. (step S); performing hot rolling and cold rolling on the slab to produce a rolled steel sheet with a thickness of 50 to 200 &#x3bc;m (step S); an annealing step in which the rolled steel sheet is annealed and cooled in a gas atmosphere containing nitrogen (step S); and pickling the rolled steel sheet after the annealing step with a solution containing a non-oxidizing acid (step S). The stainless steel sheet has an N content of 0.6 to 2.0% by mass.

Stainless steel sheet and method of manufacturing the same, separator for solid polymer fuel cell, solid polymer fuel cell, and solid polymer fuel cell battery

The present invention has as its object to provide thickness 60 &#x3bc;m or less ultra-thin stainless steel foil which secures high thickness precision and simultaneously secures plastic deformability and good elongation at break, that is, secures good press-formability (deep drawability). The present invention solves this problem by ultra-thin stainless steel foil which has three or more crystal grains in a thickness direction, has a recrystallization rate of 90% to 100%, and has a nitrogen concentration of a surface layer of 1.0 mass % or less. For this reason, there is provided a method of production of stainless steel foil comprising rolling stainless steel sheet, then performing final annealing and making a thickness 5 &#x3bc;m to 60 &#x3bc;m, wherein a rolling reduction ratio at rolling right before final annealing is 30% or more, a temperature of final annealing after rolling is 950&#xb0; C. to 1050&#xb0; C. in the case of austenitic stainless steel and 850&#xb0; C. to 950&#xb0; C. in the case of ferritic stainless steel, and a nitrogen content in atmospheric gas in final annealing is 0.1 vol % or less, whereby ultra-thin stainless steel foil can be produced.

Stainless steel foil and method of production of same

A steel foil for an electrical storage device container, including a steel foil, a metal chromium layer layered on the steel foil, and a hydrated chromium oxide layer layered on the metal chromium layer, in which the concentration of Fe from a surface of the hydrated chromium oxide layer to a depth of 10 nm is less than 10% by mass, the area ratio of a site having an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 10 nm or more in a visual field of 1 &#x3bc;m at the surface of the hydrated chromium oxide layer is less than 20%, and a site having an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 10 nm in a visual field of 1 &#x3bc;m has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 3 nm or less in a visual field of 1 &#x3bc;m at the surface of the hydrated chromium oxide layer, is adopted.

Steel foil for electrical storage device container, container for electrical storage device, and electrical storage device

Problems to be Solved: To provide a metal foil coil with a planarization film, with which an electronic device can be formed by a roll to roll process. Solution: A quick curable coating liquid for a planarization film prepared by adding into an organic solvent, with respect to 1 mol of a phenyltrialkoxysilane, 0.1 mol to 1 mol of acetic acid and 0.005 mol to 0.05 mol of organic tin as a catalyst, hydrolyzing the silane with 2 mol to 4 mol of water, then distilling away the organic solvent at a temperature of 160&#xb0; C. to 210&#xb0; C. under reduced pressure to yield a resin, and dissolving the resin in an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent, is coated on a metal foil coil to a film thickness of 2.0 &#x3bc;m to 5.0 &#x3bc;m. When an insulation coating is provided on a metal foil coil before a planarization film is formed, high reliability for insulation can be obtained. When a stainless steel foil provided with a reflection film is used, a highly efficient light emitting device can be obtained.

Coating liquid for forming planarization film and metal foil coil with planarization film

A steel foil for a power storage device container includes a rolled steel foil which has a thickness of 200 &#x3bc;m or less, a diffusion alloy layer which is formed on a surface layer of the rolled steel foil and contains Ni and Fe, and a chromium-based surface treatment layer which is formed on the diffusion alloy layer. The &#x3c;111&#x3e; polar density in a reverse pole figure of the diffusion alloy layer in a rolling direction is 2.0 to 6.0, and the aspect ratio of crystal in a surface of the diffusion alloy layer is 1.0 to 5.0.

Steel foil for power storage device container, power storage device container, power storage device, and manufacturing method of steel foil for power storage device container

According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first switch SWx which switches whether or not to supply a first power supply voltage Vx generated by accumulating a charge outputted from a power source, as a second power supply voltage VDD to a first circuit, and a second switch SWwhich switches whether or not to connect to the first circuita smoothing capacitor Cwhich suppresses a fluctuation of the second power supply voltage VDD, and the first switch SWx is switched to an on state in response to that the first power supply voltage Vx has reached a sufficient voltage, and then the second switch SWis switched to the on state in response to that the second power supply voltage VDD has reached a sufficient voltage.

Semiconductor device

A power supply device includes a plurality of power sources each including an antenna and an AC/DC conversion unit that converts an AC signal received by the antenna to a DC signal, a plurality of consolidating units each including a first consolidating circuit that selectively consolidates a plurality of DC signals supplied by the plurality of power sources, and a power supply unit that includes a second consolidating circuit that selectively consolidates DC signals output from the plurality of consolidating units, and a first voltage conversion circuit that converts a DC signal resulting from consolidation in the second consolidating circuit, to a predetermined voltage.

Power supply device, and control method of power supply device

A steel foil for a power storage device container includes a rolled steel foil, a nickel layer formed on a surface of the rolled steel foil, and a chromium-based surface treatment layer formed on a surface of the nickel layer. The nickel layer includes an upper layer portion which is in contact with the chromium-based surface treatment layer and contains Ni of 90 mass % or more among metal elements, and a lower layer portion which is in contact with the rolled steel foil and contains Ni of less than 90 mass % among the metal elements and Fe. &#x3c;111&#x3e; polar density in a reverse pole figure of the nickel layer in a rolling direction is 3.0 to 6.0. The nickel layer has a sub-boundary which is a boundary between two crystals having a relative orientation difference of 2&#xb0; to 5&#xb0;, and a large angle boundary which is a boundary between two crystals having the relative orientation difference of equal to or more than 15&#xb0;. The average value of a ratio L/Lbetween a boundary length Lwhich is the length of the sub-boundary, and a boundary length Lwhich is the length of the large angle boundary, is equal to or more than 1.0.

Provided is a receiving circuit that operates in a power supply system different from a transmitting circuit outputting a transmission signal and receives the transmission signal through an AC coupling device where a primary coil through which the transmission signal flows and a secondary coil having a center tap to which a specified voltage is supplied from an external terminal are magnetically coupled, which includes a pulse width amplifier circuit that holds pulse signals appearing at both ends of the secondary coil for a specified period of time and outputs them as hold signals, respectively, and a differential amplifier that compares a voltage of the hold signal and a voltage of the hold signal and outputs a comparison result.

Receiving circuit and signal receiving method

There is a problem in the prior semiconductor devices that energy recovery efficiency is low. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a power supply circuit includes an alternating-current signal synthesis unit including a plurality of alternating-current coupling elements having primary sides to which respective input alternating-current signals are input and secondary sides connected in series with each other, and a control circuit that outputs an input selection signal specifying a combination of the input alternating-current signals to be synthesized. The control circuit generates the input selection signal so as to maximize the output alternating-current signal synthesized by the alternating-current synthesis signal unit.

Power supply circuit

A resin-metal composite sealed container having a heat seal part using a heat-sealing resin, between an end part of a first metal foil and an end part of a second metal foil, and a metallically sealed part with a weld bead, on the end face outside the heat sealed part of the first metal foil and the second metal foil. The resin-metal composite sealed container, wherein the melting point of the metal constituting the metal foil is higher by 300&#xb0; C. or more than the thermal decomposition temperature of the heat-sealing resin, the specific gravity of the metal constituting the metal foil is 5 or more, and the weld bead is formed by a laser welding. A method for producing a metal-resin composite sealed container, comprising forming a container by heat sealing end parts of metal foils having laminated on at least one surface thereof a heat-sealing resin, and forming a metallically sealed part with a weld bead on the end faces of the metal foils by heating/welding an outer side of the heat sealed part of the container from a side of the end faces of the metal foils.

Resin-metal composite seal container and method for producing same

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