Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Masaki Kunigami

Makoto Furukawa

Nobuhiro Fueki

Satoshi Yonezawa

Rio Koyama

Tomoyuki Kamiyama

Sukeyuki Shinotsuka

Shigeto Akahori

Satoshi Aoki

Yasuro Katsuyama

Masatoshi Kobayashi

Satonori Iura

Shuga Ikeda

Yui Kinoshita

A dry space creation system includes a hollow treatment tank configured to house a material to be treated, an inflatable balloon member having a balloon shape configured to be inflated and deflated by supply and exhaust of air, the inflatable balloon member being provided inside the treatment tank, and being configured to be inflated while leaving a partial area in the treatment tank, a dry air supply unit configured to supply dry air into the area, and an inflation air supply unit configured to supply air into the inflatable balloon member.

Dry space creation system

To provide an all-solid-state battery capable of extracting capacitance at lower pressure, despite a binder-less configuration free from an organic polymer compound binder and a method for manufacturing the same. An all-solid-state batteryincludes a positive electrode layercontaining positive electrode active material particles and first solid electrolyte particles, a solid electrolyte layercontaining the first solid electrolyte particles, and a negative electrode layercontaining negative electrode active material particles and the first solid electrolyte particles, the positive electrode layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the negative electrode layerbeing bonded to one another, in which at least one layer of the positive electrode layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the negative electrode layerfurther contains a second solid electrolyte and the second solid electrolyte has crystallinity and is packed and arranged to fill gaps between the particles.

All-solid-state battery and method for manufacturing same

An electrode material manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing an electrode material () of an all-solid-state battery, and the method includes: the step of preparing a coated active substance to prepare a coated active substance () containing a positive electrode active substanceand a coating layer () of an oxide-based solid-electrolyte that covers at least a portion of a surface thereof; the step of first compositing to manufacture a first composite material () by covering at least a portion of a surface of the solid electrolyte () with a conductive auxiliary agent (); the step of second compositing to manufacture a second composite material () by covering a surface of the coated active substance () with the first composite material (); and the step of mixing the second composite material (), the conductive auxiliary agent (), and the solid electrolyte () to manufacture an electrode material ().

Method for manufacturing electrode material

In an FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) sensor, a stress direction converter includes a flat portion to which stresses are applied from the exterior, and stress transmitting sections that are bridged from the flat portion to an optical fiber cable. An inclined portion of the optical fiber cable, through which reflected light reflected by gratings is transmitted, is disposed along an inclined section that makes up one of the stress transmitting sections.

Optical fiber sensor, pressure sensor, end effector and stress detecting method using the same

An FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) sensor is equipped with a plurality of stress detection sensors made up from optical fibers in which gratings that reflect light of a specified wavelength are arrayed, and a stress direction converter that converts stresses applied from the exterior into stresses of a direction in which the gratings are arrayed, and which transmits the stresses to each of the gratings. Consequently, the stress direction converter can transmit stresses, which are applied from a body, to a plurality of gratings.

Optical fiber sensor, pressure sensor, end effector and sensor signal processor

An optical sensor circuit has a photodiode PD, a MOS transistor Q, a voltage controllerwhich supplies a gate voltage and a drain voltage to the transistor, etc. The voltage controller includes initial setting means. In the initial setting means, an electrostatic capacitance element of the photodiode is charged/discharged while setting a gate voltage of the transistor Qto a high gate voltage value VgH, only for a predetermined time period, and setting a drain voltage to a low drain voltage value VdL, only for a predetermined time period. Thereafter, the drain voltage is set to VdH, and, after elapse of a predetermined time period, the gate voltage is set to VgL. VgH, VdH, and VdL satisfy relational expressions of 'VgH&#x2212;VdH&#x3c;Vth and VgH&#x2212;VdL&#x3e;Vth where Vth: a threshold voltage of the MOS transistor Q

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