Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Masayuki Oguchi

Masahiro Sekino

Asako Satoh

Nao Shimura

Akira Yajima

Shusuke Inada

Hiroki Iwanaga

Hiroyuki Hasebe

Hiroshi Kitayama

Jun Momma

Masashi Fujiwara

Makoto Kato

Hideyuki Nakao

Kaoru Koiwa

Asako Sato

Koshin Tanaka

Masayuki Onuma

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode group having a positive electrode and a negative electrode wound flatly by way of an interposed separator, a positive electrode tab electrically connected to the positive electrode, and projecting from a spiral winding surface of the electrode group, a negative electrode tab electrically connected to the negative electrode, and projecting from the spiral winding surface, and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the nonaqueous solvent contains sultone compound including a ring having at least one double bond, and a distance between the positive electrode tab and the negative electrode tab is 6 mm to 18 mm.

Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a nonaqueous electrolyte and a positive electrode including an active material containing lithium composite oxide powder, the lithium composite oxide powder includes secondary particles, exhibits a peak intensity ratio satisfying the following formula (4), satisfies the following formula (5), and has a particle distribution wherein a particle diameter at a volumetric cumulative frequency of 90% (D90) falls within the range of 10 to 25 m, and the nonaqueous electrolyte contains a sultone compound including a ring having at least one double bond;2&#x2266;()&#x3c;5 &#x2003;&#x2003;(4)0.95&#x2266;()&#x2266;1.02. &#x2003;&#x2003;(5)

The present invention provide a nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a nonaqueous solvent, wherein the nonaqueous solvent includes ethylene carbonate (EC), propylene carbonate (PC), &#x3b3;-butyrolactone (GBL) and a fourth component that is a solvent other than the EC, the PC and the GBL, and the nonaqueous solvent satisfies the following equations (1) to (4): where, the x is a ratio (volume %) of ethylene carbonate to a total volume of the nonaqueous solvent, the y is a ratio (volume %) of propylene carbonate to the total volume of the nonaqueous solvent, the z is a ratio (volume %) of &#x3b3;-butyrolactone to the total volume of the nonaqueous solvent, and the p is a ratio (volume %) of the fourth component to the total volume of the nonaqueous solvent.

Nonaqueous electrolyte and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

Disclosed is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising a case having a wall thickness not larger than 0.3 mm, a positive electrode provided in the case, a negative electrode provided in the case and the negative electrode containing a carbonaceous material capable of absorbing-desorbing lithium ions, and a nonaqueous electrolyte provided in the case and the nonaqueous electrolyte containing a nonaqueous solvent including &#x3b3;-butyrolactone and a solute dissolved in the nonaqueous solvent, wherein after being discharged to 3V with a current of 0.2 C at room temperature, the voltage reduction caused by the self-discharge at 60&#xb0; C. is not larger than 1.5V in 3 weeks.

Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a carbonaceous material containing negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a nonaqueous solvent

An electrophoresis display capable of displaying colors, yet having high contrast and a high reflectance on displaying white color. The electrophoresis display device includes a dispersion medium containing a liquid crystal and electrophoretic particles made of titania, etc. being dispersed in the dispersion medium, wherein the dispersion medium contains a dichroic coloring matter having dichroism with a high dichroic ratio as a first coloring matter and a dichroic coloring matter having dichroism with a low dichroic ratio and/or an isotropic coloring matter as a second coloring matter, provided that the first coloring matter and the second coloring matter have complementary colors each other. In this manner, white, black, and color displays are realized by a single capsule.

Electrophoresis display

Disclosed is a nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a nonaqueous solvent which contains ethylene carbonate (EC), propylene carbonate (PC), &ggr;-butyrolactone (BL), and a fourth component, which is a solvent other than the EC, PC and BL, and the mixing ratio x (% by volume) of EC based on the total amount of the nonaqueous solvent falls within a range of between 15 and 50, the mixing ratio y (% by volume) of PC based on the total amount of the nonaqueous solvent falls within a range of between 2 and 35, the mixing ratio z (% by volume) of BL based on the total amount of the nonaqueous solvent falls within a range of between 30 and 85, and the mixing ratio p (% by volume) of the fourth component based on the total amount of the nonaqueous solvent is larger than 0 and is not larger than 5.

There is provided a liquid crystal display, including a substrate and pixels arrayed on the substrate, each of the pixels including an electric field sensitive layer which includes, an N-type liquid crystal material containing a liquid crystal substance, a dichroic dye and an isotropic dye, and particles dispersed in the N-type liquid crystal material and configured to migrate in the N-type liquid crystal material by electrophoresis.

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Yokohama, Japan

Masayuki Oguchi