Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Uchida Yoko Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Home Appliance Co., Ltd.

Tetsuya Matsuda

Tadatoshi Yamada

Shigeto Fujita

Shun Tonooka

Shunji Yamamoto

Haruya Nakai

Ryuichi Nishiura

Hiroyuki Akita

Yoshinori Shimizu

Masao Morita

Hideki Tachikawa

Yasuo Fujiwara

Kazunori Ikegami

Takashi Kunishita

Tetsuya Nakanishi

Kazuaki Aono

Toshihiro Noda

Toshiyuki Nohma

Kazuo Yamamoto

Shinji Sato

Ikuro Suga

Kenichi Koyama

Yoshitaka Otsubo

Naoki Ogawa

Toyoki Fujihara

Takao Tsurimoto

Naoki Terada

Mitsuru Tsukima

Keisuke Minami

Koji Kise

Hirofumi Tanaka

Toshie Takeuchi

Jun Bunya

Soichiro Kainaga

Hirotaka Muto

Kazufumi Tanaka

Ryota Asakura

Takafumi Nakagawa

Miyuki Takeshita

Atsushi Ogasahara

Hiroshi Kiuchi

Toshie Ushijima

Kota Nomura

Takeshi Imura

Noboru Hosokawa

Kazuki Yamauchi

Tetsuo Motomiya

Shiro Nakamura

Tokio Fukunaga

Kodai Katagiri

Masatami Iwamoto

Tomoyuki Yamada

Chihiro Tsukishima

Atsuo Okamoto

Kazuma Mima

Kazuhiro Kameoka

Akihiko Maruyama

Hirohisa Kuwano

Ryosuke Shirota

Shoichi Yokoyama

Nobumoto Tohya

Koichi Katayama

Kiyoyuki Ishikawa

Takahiko Ishikura

Souitirou Okuda

Syunji Yamamoto

Kesaaki Yamaguchi

Yukinori Ikeda

Hiroki Otera

Hideki Fukui

Koji Shinya

Koichi Wakasugi

Hirokazu Kinoshita

Akio Kishi

Yuki Fujiwara

Kunikazu Inoue

Kazuki Moriwaki

Nobuji Suzuki

A manufacturing method of a positive electrode plate for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a coating and drying step of coating a positive electrode active material layer and a protective layer onto a positive electrode core so that the protective layer forms a raised part between a portion inside a side end of a core exposed part in a width direction and a width-direction center, and then drying the positive electrode active material layer and the protective layer; and a compressing step of compressing the protective layer and the positive electrode active material layer so as to press the raised part formed in the coating and drying step and the positive electrode active material layer.

Method for producing positive electrode plate for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for producing nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A magnetic heat pump includes magnetocaloric members, an impeller, deformable members, a casing, an electric motor, and a magnetic field generator. The impeller has accommodation chambers. The deformable members face the accommodation chambers. The casing has an interior space accommodating the magnetocaloric members, the impeller, and the deformable members and allowing a heat transport medium to circulate, a first inlet, and a first outlet spaced apart from the first inlet in the circumferential direction. The magnetic field generator produces a magnetic field becoming stronger along the first direction, in a first region extending from the first inlet to the first outlet in the first direction in the interior space. The shapes of the deformable members individually change with the rotation. The volumes of the accommodation chambers individually increase and decrease with change in shape of the deformable members.

Magnetic heat pump and magnetic refrigeration cycle apparatus

A magnetic refrigeration device includes a magnetocaloric material, first piping, second piping, a magnetic field generating unit, and a switching unit. The first piping supplies a refrigerant to the magnetocaloric material in a first refrigerant direction. The second piping supplies the refrigerant to the magnetocaloric material in a second refrigerant direction. The magnetic field generating unit is capable of applying a magnetic field to the magnetocaloric material. The switching unit switches between a first state and a second state in response to the magnetic field. In the first state, the refrigerant is supplied from the first piping to the magnetocaloric material. In the second state, the refrigerant is supplied from the second piping to the magnetocaloric material.

Magnetic refrigeration device and refrigeration cycle device

A static magnetic field generator generates a non-magnetic field region. An AC magnetic field application instrument applies an AC magnetic field to the non-magnetic field region. A detection coil has an axis parallel to a direction of the AC magnetic field in order to detect a magnetization signal. A measuring instrument is connected to the detection coil. A resonance frequency variable device includes a capacitor connected in parallel to the detection coil in order to adjust a resonance frequency of the detection coil and the measuring instrument. A capacity of the capacitor is adjusted such that a resonance frequency of a closed circuit including the detection coil, the measuring instrument, and the resonance frequency variable device including the capacitor coincides with a frequency of a harmonic signal.

Magnetic particle imaging device

A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor chips, an insulating part, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first bus bar, and a second bus bar. The insulating part surrounds the semiconductor chips. The first electrode is in pressure contact with the semiconductor chips. The semiconductor chips are sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode in a first direction. The second electrode is in pressure contact with the semiconductor chips. The first bus bar is connected to the first electrode. The second bus bar is connected to the second electrode. The first bus bar and the second bus bar sandwich the insulating part in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

Plurality of bus bars intersecting a plurality electrode

In a superconducting coil used in an MRI apparatus, it is necessary to arrange a superconducting wire at a desired position to obtain a desired coil shape in order to obtain a temporally stable static electromagnetic field with high strength and high uniformity. A superconducting coil includes a winding frame, a spacer disposed on an outer periphery of winding frame and including a winding groove having a spiral shape and a communication groove provided between winding grooves, and includes a coil group having a superconducting wire wound in winding groove. It is therefore possible to obtain superconducting coil having a desired coil shape.

Superconducting coil and manufacturing method for superconducting coil

A magnetic refrigeration device includes a magnetic heat container, a magnetic field generation device, a high temperature-side heat exchanger, a low temperature-side heat exchanger, and a pump. The magnetic heat container is filled with a magneto-caloric material. The pump is capable of transporting a heat transport medium in a reciprocable manner between the high temperature-side heat exchanger and the low temperature-side heat exchanger via the magnetic heat container. The magnetic heat container has a spiral shape extending in a spiral on an identical plane and allows the heat transport medium transported by the pump to flow along the spiral shape.

Magnetic refrigeration device

An uneven current distribution among a plurality of provided power semiconductor chips is to be suppressed. A power semiconductor module includes a module main body, a plurality of power semiconductor chips arranged on an upper surface of the module main body, and peripheral structures being insulating ferromagnets surrounding parts of a periphery of the module main body in a plan view, in which the plurality of power semiconductor chips are arranged in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction in a plan view, and at least one of the plurality of power semiconductor chips is arranged so as to be surrounded by other power semiconductor chips.

Power semiconductor module and composite module having peripheral structures surrounding parts of the module main body

A negative electrode includes a negative electrode protecting layer that is disposed so as to cover a negative electrode active material layer formed on at least one surface of a negative electrode core in a thickness direction and that has higher electrical resistance than the negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is formed in a region extending from an edge at one end to a boundary 300 &#x3bc;m away from the edge in a width direction. The second surface is positioned closer than the first surface to the other end. Regarding the negative electrode protecting layer, the average value of the first thickness of a first portion covering the first surface is 1.7 or more times larger than the maximum value of the second thickness of a second portion covering the second surface.

Electrode and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A magnetic refrigerator including an electromagnet for magnetic refrigeration. The electromagnet for magnetic refrigeration includes: a return yoke; at least one pair of opposite magnetic poles disposed inside the return yoke and spaced from each other by a gap; a pipe disposed in the gap to pass a heat transport medium therethrough; a magnetocaloric member disposed inside the pipe to exchange heat with the heat transport medium; and a coil to surround at least one of the paired opposite magnetic poles to generate a magnetic flux passing across the gap when the coil is energized.

Magnetic refrigerator

A spring electrode for a press-pack power semiconductor module includes a first electrode in contact with a power semiconductor chip, a second electrode arranged to face the first electrode, and a pressure pad which connects the first electrode and the second electrode and has flexibility in a normal direction of opposing surfaces of the first electrode and the second electrode. The opposing surfaces of the first electrode and the second electrode can be polygons of a pentagon or more, the pressure pad can be a cylindrical conductor or a plurality of wire conductors, and sides of the opposing surface of the first electrode and sides of the opposing surface of the second electrode corresponding to these sides are connected in parallel by the pressure pad.

Spring electrode for press-pack power semiconductor module

An induction heating cooker according to the present invention has a top plate on which a heater area indication indicating a mount position of to-be-heated object is formed, and a first coil and a second coil that are formed of an annular coil arranged below the heater area indication of the top plate, the second coil includes a first winding portion extending in a circumferential direction of the first coil, and a second winding portion spaced apart from the first winding portion and extending in the circumferential direction of the first coil, and the distance between the first winding portion and the top plate is different from the distance between the second winding portion and the top plate.

Induction heating cooker

Provided is an electromagnetic device for magnetic particle imaging, including: a return yoke having a gap, which extends in a Y direction and forms a magnetic field space; a gradient magnetic field generating unit, which is provided to the return yoke, and is configured to generate, in the magnetic field space, a gradient magnetic field in an X direction, and to form, in the magnetic field space, a zero-field region extending in the Y direction; an alternating magnetic field generating unit, which is provided to the return yoke, and is configured to generate an alternating magnetic field in the magnetic field space; and a rotation mechanism configured to rotate the gradient magnetic field and the alternating magnetic field relative to a subject with a Z direction being a rotation axis.

Electro-magnet device for magnetic particle imaging and magnetic particle imaging device

A static magnetic field adjustment device for an MRI includes a shim tray, a bottom spacer and a magnetic material shim. The shim tray is mounted on the MRI and provided with a shim pocket. The bottom spacer is made of a non-magnetic material and accommodated in the shim pocket to make contact with a bottom surface of the shim pocket. The magnetic material shim is made of a magnetic material and accommodated in the shim pocket with the bottom spacer interposed between the magnetic material shim and the bottom surface of the shim pocket.

Static magnetic field adjustment device for magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and superconducting magnet

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a terminal electrode, and internal wiring. The semiconductor element is housed in a case. The terminal electrode is provided electrically connectable to an outside of the case. The internal wiring is provided in the case and electrically connects the semiconductor element and the terminal electrode. The internal wiring includes a fuse portion provided at a part of the internal wiring and configured to be melted by an overcurrent. The fuse portion includes a plurality of metal wires which are a group of parallel wires. Of the plurality of metal wires, a first metal wire is higher in resistance value than a second metal wire laid on an outer side relative to the first metal wire.

Semiconductor device with fuse portion comprising wires of different electrical resistance

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Tetsuya Matsuda