Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Masaru Hayashi

Hiroshi Endo

Fuminobu Tezuka

Yuki Tomioka

Shigeo Iiri

Akira Okada

Isao Suzuki

Satoshi Yamaguchi

Koji Yamakawa

Yuji Yamada

Takashi Takahashi

Takaaki Yasumoto

Akihiko Tsuge

Fumio Ueno

Akihiro Horiguchi

Osamu Furukawa

Mitsuo Kasori

Nobuo Iwase

Hideyuki Kanai

Kaoru Koiwa

Motomasa Imai

Toshihiko Oguchi

Kiyoshi Iyogi

Kazuo Shinozaki

Hideki Matsunaga

Miyuki Takenaka

Katsuyoshi Oh-Ishi

Motoo Seimiya

Kunihiko Sasaki

Tsutomu Yamashita

Masayuki Onuma

Shoji Kozuka

Tetsuya Tachibe

Masashi Awa

Naoyuki Hirate

Osamu Hirao

Yoshiko Sato

Motonaka Yabuki

Disclosed is a method of reclaiming a cathodic active material of lithium ion secondary batteries. The lithium ion secondary battery is broken and the casing and the content are separated to remove the casing from the content. The content is dissolved into a mineral acid to separate remaining non-dissolved content from the mineral acid to obtain a liquid containing the cathodic active material represented by the formula: LiMO,, where M is a transition metal element: cobalt, nickel and manganese. A lithium salt is added to the liquid, and the cathodic active material is recovered from the liquid in the form of a mixture of lithium compound and the transition metal compound, which is calcined and reclaimed into the cathodic active material.

Method of reclaiming cathodic active material of lithium ion secondary battery

Disclosed is a method of recovering lithium from a battery containing lithium such as a lithium ion secondary battery. The lithium-containing member of the battery is dissolved with an acidic liquid, and an alkaline material is added to the obtained lithium solution to transform a transition metal which may be dissolved in the lithium solution into a metal hydroxide precipitation, whereby the metal hydroxide precipitate is separated from the lithium solution. The lithium solution is then dried to obtain a solid containing the lithium, and the lithium is eluted from the solid with a non-aqueous solvent. Retrieving lithium from the lithium eluate is accomplished by use of a cation exchanger.

Method of recovering lithium from batteries

Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for etching a silicon material in order to prepare a sample for measuring the impurities which are contained in the silicon material. The silicon material is etched by contacting the silicon material with an etching gas containing a fluorine compound which is selected from the group consisting of xenon fluoride, hydrogen fluoride, oxygen fluoride and halogen fluoride, to produce a product by reaction of the silicon material with the etching gas. The product is heated to evaporate and remove the product from an impurity which is contained in the silicon material and not reactive to the etching gas.

Method and apparatus for etching of silicon materials

According to this invention, there is disclosed a thermal conductivity substrate which includes an aluminum nitride sintered body and a coating layer formed on the body of aluminum phosphate and having a surface roughness of 1 .mu.m or less, and which has excellent humidity resistance and chemical resistance.

Ceramic circuit board having a thermal conductivity substrate

According to the present invention, there is provided an aluminum nitride sintered body having a high thermal conductivity and essentially consisting of a AlN single-phase, containing 0.01 to 8,000 ppm of rare earth elements and less than 2,000 ppm of oxygen. According to the present invention, there is provided a method of fabricating an aluminum nitride sintered body having a high thermal conductivity and essentially consisting of AlN single-phase, containing 0.01 to 8,000 ppm of rare earth elements and less than 2,000 ppm of oxygen, wherein a molded body prepared by mixing and molding an aluminum nitride power having less than 7 wt % of oxygen and an average particle size of 0.05 to 5 .mu.m and with rare earth compounds of 0.01 to 15 wt % of based on rare earth elements content, or a sintered AlN body containing oxide grain boundary phases of 0.01 to 15 wt % of rare earth elements and 0.01 to 20 wt % of oxygen and (rare earth element)--Al--O compounds phases and/or (rare earth element)--O compounds phases, is fired in a reducing atmosphere at a temperature of 1,550 to 2,050.degree. C. for 4 hours or more.

AlN sintered body having high thermal conductivity and a method of

High-purity molybdenum or tungsten powder can be produced by a process comprising (a) decomposing a powder or an oxide powder of molybdenum or tungsten with hydrogen peroxide water; (b) bringing the resulting aqueous solution of molybdenum or tungsten into contact with a cation exchange resin; (c) concentrating the aqueous solution; and (d) reducing a concentrated solid material. By omitting reducing step (d), one can obtain high-purity molybdenum or tungsten oxide powders. Because the Mo and W powders and MoO.sub.3 and WO.sub.3 powders prepared by this invention are of an extremely high purity, they are useful as materials for targets of VLSI elements.

Methods for preparing high-purity molybdenum or tungsten powder and

A metal oxide varistor is disclosed which a component of grain bodies comprised of zinc oxide and a component of grain boundary layers comprised of another metallic oxide, containing metal other than zinc wherein at least a portion of these starting materials comprised a fine particle powder prepared by a co-precipitatin method. The metal oxide varistor of the present invention is excellent in varistor characteristics such as non-linearity to voltage, life performances and capability of energy dissipation, is small in a scatter of the above characteristics between manufacture lots or within each lot at the time of manufacture, and has a good quality stability. Unexpected results are obtained when the co-precipitated fine particles are subjected to a refrigeration-dehydration type process.

Metal oxide varistor made by a co-precipation process and freeze-dried

Barium-ferrite series powders are prepared from an alkaline aqueous solution containing a prescribed ratio of ions of the metals equal to those contained in the powder. In the first stage, the alkaline aqueous solution is heated at a constant volume at 150.degree. to 300.degree. C. to precipitate a precursor of the barium-ferrite series powder. Then, the precursor is baked at 700.degree. to 1,000.degree. C. to crystallize the precursor.

Method of producing barium-ferrite series powder

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Masaru Hayashi