Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hitachi, Ltd.

Elpida Memory, Inc.

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.

Tomoyuki Nakamura

Harunobu Sano

Makoto Matsuda

Takehisa Sasabayashi

Masayuki Ishihara

Yasuhiro Komiya

Takeyuki Ajito

Toru Wada

Akihiro Shiota

Tomonori Muraki

Kazuo Muto

Takahiro Endo

Osamu Konno

Toshihiro Okamatsu

Kotaro Hata

Hironori Suzuki

Shinobu Mizuno

Yuji Uchida

Kenji Hori

Takehiko Suwa

Hiroyasu Konaka

Akira Kato

Kunihiko Hayashi

Hirokazu Takashima

Takayuki Yao

Takahiro Yano

Akio Masunari

Takeru Yamamoto

Tetsuya Makino

Yosuke Konishi

Hiroshi Takabayashi

Nobuyuki Watanabe

Kensuke Ishii

Masao Shimizu

Hiroaki Takahashi

Masatoshi Okutomi

Hiroyoshi Kobayashi

Hiroyuki Akashi

Akihiro Kubota

Takashi Hiramatsu

Gentaro Kano

Taichi Isogai

Susumu Kobayashi

Yasutaka Kimura

Akira Sasaki

Yoshiaki Naruse

Hideyasu Onishi

Tatsuya Yahata

Yukifumi Takeda

Akira Saito

Hirotaka Sakai

Koki Shibuya

Motohiro Shimizu

Masato Fukui

Mitsuo Tsurugai

Takanori Kajimoto

Kouhei Mukaigaito

Shigeaki Funyu

Toshiyuki Fujikawa

Akira Kata

Yoshitaka Katsuta

Hyogo Takami

Hiroyasu Konakaka

Kentaro Sakai

Toshihiro Ikamatsu

Provided are a wavelength conversion member including: a quantum dot phosphor; a white pigment including an organic substance layer that contains an organic substance, on at least a part of a surface of the white pigment; and a resin cured product including the quantum dot phosphor and the white pigment.

Wavelength conversion member, back light unit, image display device, resin composition for wavelength conversion, and resin cured product for wavelength conversion

A composite electronic component includes a substrate with a first main surface and a side end surface, a first electronic component including external electrodes and mounted on the first main surface of the substrate, a second electronic component including external electrodes and being different in electrical function from the first electronic component mounted on the first main surface of the substrate, and a conductive pattern on the first main surface of the substrate, electrically connecting the first electronic component and the second electronic component to each other, and including one end reaching a side of one side end of the substrate, one external electrode of the first electronic component and one external electrode of the second electronic component being located on the side of the one side end of the substrate, another external electrode of the first electronic component and another external electrode of the second electronic component being connected to the conductive pattern, and the composite electronic component being mounted such that a surface of the substrate on the side of the one side end is opposed to a first main surface of a mount substrate.

Composite electronic component

A method and device for operating a power system, and a rechargeable-battery management device that extracts maximum performance from rechargeable batteries and uses the batteries evenly while taking into consideration cost and the operation of the batteries are provided. According to the method for operating a power system provided with a plurality of rechargeable-battery devices and a plurality of electric generators, the amount of power that a rechargeable battery available during a scheduled time period on a scheduled date will be able to supply is determined, an economic-dispatch calculation including the determined amount of power that the aforementioned rechargeable battery will be able to supply is performed for the power system, and the rechargeable battery is used to supply power during the scheduled time period on the scheduled date.

Method and device for operating power system, and rechargeable-battery management device

A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic element body including first and second external electrodes on first and second end surface sides of the ceramic element body, respectively. The first external electrode includes an Ni plating layer and an Sn plating layer defining a plating layer. The second external electrode includes an Au plating layer defining a plating layer.

Electronic component, mounted electronic component, and method for mounting electronic component

A non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes a battery device in which a positive electrode is faced to negative electrode through a separator; a non-aqueous electrolyte; a laminate film which is formed by laminating a metal layer, an outside resin layer formed in outer face of the metal layer, and an inside resin layer formed in the metal layer, and in which the battery device and the non-aqueous electrolyte is packaged by heat welding and housed; a positive electrode lead which is electrically connected to the positive electrode, and drawn from portion heat-welded of the laminate film to an exterior thereof; a negative electrode lead which is electrically connected to the negative electrode, and drawn from portion heat-welded of the laminate film to an exterior thereof; and a porous polymer layer containing, as a component, vinylidene fluoride formed between the laminate film and the battery device.

Non-aqueous electrolyte battery having porous polymer layer between laminate film and battery device

There is provided a secondary battery including a battery device that has a thickness of 3 to 20 mm, and a battery discharge capacity of 3 to 50 Ah, and an exterior material that packages the battery device. The battery device includes a positive electrode that has a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode that has a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer, a separator that is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode that are alternately laminated, a positive electrode tab that is electrically connected to a positive electrode current collector exposed portion and is led-out to the outside of the exterior material, and a negative electrode tab that is electrically connected to a negative electrode current collector exposed portion and is led-out to the outside of the exterior material.

Secondary battery for large current charge and discharge characteristic

A battery is provided. The battery includes a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator between the positive and negative electrodes; a polymeric layer between the separator and one or both of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the polymeric layer including an electrolytic solution comprising 13% by mass to 25% by mass of an electrolyte salt; and an exterior member housing the positive electrode, the negative electrode, the separator, and the polymeric layer, wherein the battery has a maximum attained temperature not higher than 100&#xb0; C. based on a nail piercing safety test.

Battery

Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries are provided. In one embodiment, the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive and negative electrodes, a polymeric layer disposed between the separator and at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an exterior member housing the positive electrode, the negative electrode, the separator, and the polymeric layer. The separator has a thickness of 5 &#x3bc;m to 20 &#x3bc;m and includes at least 90% by mass of polyethylene. The polymeric layer holds therein a non-aqueous electrolytic solution including 13% by mass to 25% by mass of an electrolyte salt. The battery has a maximum attained temperature not higher than 100&#xb0; C. using a nail piercing safety test at the time of conducting the safety test.

Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic multilayer body including dielectric layers and inner electrodes stacked on top of one another with the dielectric layers interposed between a corresponding pair of the inner electrodes. The dielectric layers each include a perovskite-type compound including Ba and Ti. A boundary layer including Mg and Mn is located at an interface between an outermost inner electrode and an outermost dielectric layer. The outermost inner electrode is located at an outermost position of the inner electrodes in a direction in which the inner electrodes are stacked. The outermost dielectric layer is located outside the outermost inner electrode. A proportion in which the boundary layer is present at the interface is about 69% or more. A continuity of the outermost inner electrode is about 60% or more.

Multilayer ceramic capacitor

A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the both electrodes, a non-aqueous electrolytic solution and an exterior member made of a laminate material and housing the positive electrode, the negative electrode, the separator and the non-aqueous electrolytic solution. A polymeric support exists between the separator and at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode. Also, the separator contains polyethylene as a main component and contains not more than 10% by mass of polypropylene.

A dielectric ceramic and a laminated ceramic capacitor using the dielectric ceramic are achieved which provide favorable thermal shock resistance without damaging properties or characteristics such as dielectric properties, insulation properties, temperature characteristics, and characteristics in high temperature loading, even when the dielectric layers are reduced in thickness and the number of stacked layers increased. The dielectric ceramic contains, as its main constituent, a barium titanate based compound represented by the general formula ABO, and a crystalline oxide containing Al, Mg, and Si is present as secondary phase grains in the dielectric ceramic.

Dielectric ceramic and laminated ceramic capacitor

A method for manufacturing a laminated ceramic capacitor by firing a laminated body which includes dielectric ceramic layers containing a dielectric ceramic raw material powder and internal electrodes. The firing is carried out in accordance with a temperature profile in which the average rate of temperature rise is 40&#xb0; C./second or more from room temperature to a maximum temperature. The dielectric ceramic raw material powder contains a BaTiOsystem as its main constituent, and contains R (R is Sc, etc.), M (M is Mn, etc.), and Mg as accessory constituents, in which, when the total amount of the accessory constituents contained is denoted by D parts by mol with respect to 100 parts by mol of the main constituent, an the specific surface area of the main constituent is denoted by E m/g, then D/E is 0.2 to 0.8.

Manufacturing method for laminated ceramic capacitor, and laminated ceramic capacitor

A dielectric ceramic (and capacitor containing it) balancing high temperature load characteristics and temperature characteristics of capacitance even when layer thickness is less than 1 &#x3bc;m has a mixture of different crystal grains containing a barium titanate compound as the main constituent. The first crystal grains can contain rare earth element solid solution regionat the surface layer section. The second crystal grains have a core-shell structure including a shell section having a rare earth element solid solution present. The first and second crystal grains are 12% to 84% f and 16% to 88%, respectively, of the total number of crystal grains.

A laminated ceramic capacitor which provides favorable properties and characteristics such as dielectric characteristics, insulation properties, temperature characteristics, and high temperature load characteristics and provides favorable thermal shock resistance, even when dielectric ceramic layers are reduced in layer thickness to increase the number of layers has dielectric ceramic layers containing, as their main constituent, a barium titanate based compound represented by the general formula ABOand internal electrodes containing Ni as their main constituent, which are stacked alternately. A crystalline oxide containing at least Mg and Li is present in at least either one of the internal electrodes and the dielectric ceramic layers. The crystalline oxide is preferably present mostly in contact with Ni in the internal electrodes.

Laminated ceramic capacitor

In a dielectric ceramic having crystal grains and containing a perovskite in which the A site contains Ba and the B site contains Ti. as a main component, the crystal orientations are aligned in substantially the same direction within the crystal grains. Some of Ba may be replaced with Ca and/or Sr, and some of Ti may be replaced with Zr and/pr Hf. This achieves a dielectric ceramic which has a high dielectric constant and has favorable AC electric field characteristics in which the change in dielectric constant is small even with changes in applied electric field.

Dielectric ceramic and multilayer ceramic capacitor

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