Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.

Riso Kagaku Corporation

Ricoh Printing Systems, Ltd.

Vehicle Energy Japan Inc.

Other

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nitto-denko Corporation

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Hitahci, Ltd.

Takashi Suzuki

Teruaki Mitsuya

Yoshitaka Fujinuma

Yoshihiro Hayashi

Sadanao Okuda

Tsuneaki Kawanishi

Masato Ishikawa

Kikuo Ono

Toshiya Satoh

Masayuki Ainoya

Ryuuichi Shimizu

Masato Miwa

Genshiro Kawachi

Kouichi Anno

Masaaki Kitajima

Masayasu Anzai

Yasuo Kikuchi

Koji Kato

Toshiki Kaneko

Makoto Tsumura

Kazuhiro Ogawa

Nobutake Konishi

Takao Umeda

Isao Nakajima

Kenichi Onisawa

Hiroyuki Mabuchi

Yasuo Takuma

Osamu Kubota

Akio Mimura

Tsutomu Nakagawa

Katsuya Kawai

Hiroki Sakuta

Hideaki Yamamoto

Masahiko Ando

Hirobumi Ooyoshi

Keisuke Kubota

Junji Shirakawa

Naoki Kojima

Hiroyuki Nishii

Hisao Okada

Tetsuro Minemura

Toshitaka Ogawa

Masuyuki Ota

Hidekazu Fujimura

Shigenobu Katagiri

Takahiro Wakayama

Shigeru Yumiyama

Jun-ichi Ohwada

Shigehiko Omata

Tomio Sugaya

Tsutomu Sato

Kazunori Ojima

Yuichiro Suzuki

Kazuo Uno

Mizuki Yamamoto

Tomonari Hokkyo

Katsuhiro Akinaga

Daisuke Hara

Yoshitaka Watahiki

Yosuke Saito

Hiroyoshi Matsumoto

Koutarou Yamada

Michihiro Kimura

Naoya Tokoo

Kazuo Sunou

Tomonari Hokkyoh

Masao Yoshimura

Yousuke Saito

Yoshinobu Nakamura

Kenji Nakamura

Heigo Ueki

Syuho Yokokawa

Shinichi Fukazawa

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a battery module including a plurality of battery groups each having a plurality of battery cells connected in parallel, the plurality of battery groups being connected in series by bus bars, for which a clad material is not used and thus dissimilar metal welding can be avoided. To achieve the object, a first bus barP mainly contains aluminum and is connected to positive electrode terminals of a plurality of battery cellsof each battery groupvia welding joint portions W. A second bus barN mainly contains copper and is connected to negative electrode terminals of the plurality of battery cellsof each battery groupvia welding joint portions W. The first bus barP of one of the mutually adjacent battery groupsof the plurality of battery groupsis connected to the second bus barN of the other battery groupvia a mechanical joint portion M.

Battery module

To prevent an increase in the electrical resistance between a terminal for external connection and a cell terminal of a battery cell of a battery cell group. A battery moduleincludes a battery cell group, a pair of end plates, a bus bar, and a fastening member. The end plateincludes a recessadapted to partially house the fastening memberin a mutually movable manner in one direction (X-direction) corresponding to the stacked direction of the plurality of battery cells. The battery modulealso has a gap S between an inner side wallof the recessand the fastening memberin the one direction (X-direction).

The present invention proposes a structure of a battery module in which a spacer can slide by means of a guide member constituting the battery module and can be positioned. A battery module according to the present invention is a battery moduleprovided with a battery blockin which a plurality of rectangular battery cellsare arranged and laminated, and includes a spacerwhich intervenes between the plurality of battery cells, guide membersandwhich slidably support the spaceralong a laminating direction of the battery cells, and end platesas a pair which are respectively arranged on one side and the other side of the guide membersandin a sliding direction and which sandwich the battery blockfrom both sides in the sliding direction.

Disclosed is an anion exchange electrolyte membrane including: a base polymer having a polar group; and a graft chain having a specific structural unit. The graft chain is, for example, a polymer chain that is formed from diallyldimethylammonium chloride as a monomer.

Anion exchange electrolyte membrane, membrane-electrode assembly for fuel cell including the same, and fuel cell including the same

A developing device in an image forming apparatus includes: a first developer carrier that rotates in a same direction as a rotating direction of an image carrier of the image forming apparatus so as to supply developer to the image carrier; and a second developer carrier that rotates in a direction opposite to the rotating direction of the image carrier so as to supply the developer to the image carrier. The developing device simultaneously performs a refreshing operation of performing replacement of the developer and a filming removal operation of causing the image carrier to rotate idle while forming an image for use in the refreshing operation and causing the first and second developer carriers to rotate in their respective rotating directions.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An axis-to-axis distance between a heating roller and a back-up roller is expanded beforehand in inserting a thick paper to prevent a rush/exhaust impact when fixing the thick paper without changing a condition of pressing mechanism.

Fixing device and electro-photographic recording apparatus using the same

A fixing device wherein supposing that the total load given to a heating roller and a pressure roller is W (kgf) and the area of the pressure contact portion of the heating roller with respect to the pressure roller (nip area) is S (cm), the nip pressure (=W/S) is 2.7 kgf/cmor more and the length of the pressure contact portion in the direction parallel to the direction of conveyance of a recording material is defined to be 14 mm or more.

Fixing device including heating roller and pressure roller

A cleaning device is disposed substantially vertical above a photosensitive drum for the purpose of constructing a compact electrophotographic printer. The cleaning device includes a housing that accommodates an auxiliary toner conveying part and a sheet-like resilient member. A cleaning brush is also disposed in the housing so that a gap of 1-3 mm is formed between the cleaning brush and the auxiliary toner conveying part and resilient member. During an image forming operation, toner accumulates between the cleaning blade and the cleaning brush and is conveyed upward through the gap between the cleaning brush and the auxiliary toner conveying part and resilient member. The toner drops onto the cleaning brush near the top thereof and is conveyed by the cleaning brush to a screw. The screw discharges the toner from the cleaning device.

Cleaning device for image forming apparatus

A liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method therefor are provided where the number of processes for manufacturing TFT substrates can be decreased and a high production yield can be attained. To attain these objects, an image signal bus-line includes at least a transparent conductive film and a semiconductor layer. A pattern of the transparent conductive film extends up to a thin film transistor to form its drain electrode, and a pattern of a semiconductor layer extends up to the transistor to form its source electrode. By virtue of these arrangements, the thin film transistor substrate can be manufactured using as little as three or four photolithography processes.

Active matrix LCD device with image signal lines having a multilayered structure

A computer system comprises a primary volumeP having a plurality of storage blocks P, and a differential volumeD having a plurality of storage blocks D. Differential data corresponding to one among the plurality of storage blocks P is stored in at least one among the plurality of storage blocks D. A control deviceidentifies differential data which is unnecessary for a host device, based on a snapshot management table S or C indicating whether data has been read by the host devicefrom any one of storage blocks P, and on a differential management tableindicating to which storage block P differential data corresponds and in which storage block D the data is stored, and performs at least one among removal of the identified differential data from the differential volumeD, and removal of an unnecessary information element from the differential management table

Storage control system and storage control method

An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit having a first printing section for forming a first image on the paper; a second image forming unit having a second printing section for forming a second image on the paper; and a paper conveying unit for conveying the paper from the first image forming unit to the second image forming unit. Accordingly, two kinds of image can be formed employing one image forming apparatus. The first image and the second image may be formed using the same recording material (toner) or different recording materials (toners).

Image forming apparatus

A cooling device used in an electrophotographic image forming device includes a cooling roller, which is a heat roller, and a backup roller pressed against the cooling roller to form a nip portion therebetween. After being discharged from a fixing device that thermally fixes a toner image onto a recording sheet, the recording sheet passes through the nip portion, whereby the cooling roller cools the recording sheet. The cooling roller is maintained at 100&#xb0; C. or higher.

Cooling device for cooling recording sheet

Fixing device

A fixing device has a web unit with a housing having two shaft members in parallel with each other, the housing defining a through hole on each of two lateral sides of the housing. The web unit also has a web member windably supported by the two shaft members, and a handle having two protrusion protruded from a lateral surface of the housing to outside of the housing. Each of the two protrusions defines a first width and a second width larger than the first width. The fixing device also has a fixing device frame to be detachably disposed to the web unit. The fixing device frame has a guiding groove with a groove through which the two protrusions are guided on the basis of the first width, and a guiding portion at an end of the groove to allow the two protrusions to be changed from the first width to the second width. The attachment or detachment of the web unit to or from the fixing device frame is regulated corresponding to a position of the handle with respect to the housing.

A water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion ink for stencil printing is provided, which is excellent in emulsion stability and drying, high in printing density and low in blurring and seep through. The W/O emulsion ink has an oil phase and a water phase, in which an acid anhydride containing water-soluble polymer is contained together with a water-insoluble colorant in said water phase. The acid anhydride containing water-soluble polymer is preferably an acid anhydride containing olefin copolymer, more specifically, an isobutylene-maleic anhydride copolymer, or an acid anhydride containing vinyl copolymer, more specifically, a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer. Preferably, the oil phase comprises at least a solvent and an emulsifier, and the water phase comprises a water-in-oil (O/W) emulsion of resin and/or a water-soluble resin.

Emulsion ink for stencil printing

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Takashi Suzuki