Sony Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yosuke Suzuki

Masahiro Takahashi

Kazuyuki Sakamoto

Hideki Kimura

Masahiro Ohmori

Masanori Aoyagi

Hirofumi Yasuda

Yoshiaki Nitta

Shingo Harada

Tsutomu Asawa

Naoko Nishimura

Sohei Suga

Kiyohito Fujita

Kenji Saito

Manabu Nishijima

Tamaki Miura

Takayuki Matsuoka

Tomohisa Matsuno

Noriko Kito

Toshiki Mori

Kazushige Morita

Yusuke Sasa

Makoto Watanabe

Jun Yamashita

Maho Shimokawa

Kazuma Tokai

Naoko Shohji

Kaya Kanamori

Shinsaku Ehara

Shinnichi Tasaki

A cleaning blade includes an elastic member that includes a front edge surface extending in the longitudinal direction of the elastic member and the thickness direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction and a bottom surface extending in the depth direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction and the thickness direction, the bottom surface sharing a front edge ridge part with the front edge surface and facing a cleaning target, and a coating layer coating the front edge surface, the front edge ridge part, and the bottom surface, wherein the front edge ridge part coated with the coating layer is in contact with a surface of the cleaning target, and the coating layer has an average thickness that increases with an increase in a distance from the front edge ridge part in the thickness direction on the front edge surface.

Cleaning blade, method of manufacturing the same, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

An electric device having a power generating element contains a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material formed on a surface of a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode, and a separator containing an electrolyte. The positive electrode active material contains a lithium nickel-based composite oxide having a layered crystal structure capable of insertion and desorption of lithium ions, the composition represented by: [LiNi][NiMnMCO]O, wherein M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Nb, W, P, Al, Mg, V, Ca, Sr, Cr, Fe, B, Ga, In, Si, Mo, Y, Sn, V, Cu, Ag, and Zn, and x+y+z&#x2264;1, &#x3b2;&#x2264;0.032, 0.9&#x2264;&#x3b1;+&#x3b2;&#x2264;1.2, 0&#x3c;x&#x3c;1, 0&#x3c;y&#x3c;1, 0&#x3c;z&#x3c;1, and 0&#x2264;r&#x2264;0.3, and the electrolyte has a cyclic sulfonic acid ester.

Electric device

A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is capable of suppressing a local reaction of a negative electrode active material due to the electrolyte during charging and discharging and improving a capacity retention ratio of a using a carbon material such as artificial graphite particles for the negative electrode active material. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a negative electrode containing a carbon-based negative electrode active material, an electrolyte layer, and a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material, and having a tap density of the negative electrode active material of 0.96 g/cc or more.

Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a power generating element having a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer containing lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt composite oxide on a surface of a current collector, an electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode. At least one of the following conditions (1) to (4) is satisfied. (1) A value obtained by dividing a direct current resistance of the battery by a heat resistance in a plane direction of the battery is 0.055 or more; (2) a value obtained by dividing a direct current resistance of the battery by a heat capacity of the battery is 3.080&#xd7;10or more; (3) a value obtained by dividing a battery capacity by a heat resistance in a plane direction of the battery is 880 or more; and (4) a value obtained by dividing a battery capacity by a heat capacity of the battery is 0.05000 or more.

A control device of a secondary battery has a current detection unit () that detects a charge current to the secondary battery () and a discharge current from the secondary battery (); a calculation unit () that calculates, from the charge current and the discharge current, a charge-discharge efficiency and a discharge-charge efficiency when performing a charge operation and a discharge operation; a deterioration judgment unit () that judges a deterioration state of the secondary battery () from a temporal change rate of the charge-discharge efficiency and a temporal change rate of the discharge-charge efficiency; and a control unit () that sets a charge termination voltage of the secondary battery () in accordance with the deterioration state.

Secondary battery control device

An information processing apparatus includes a display section and a main body section. The display section is disposed on a first surface and has a display panel and a display panel case. The display panel case houses the display panel such that the display panel can display an image. The display panel case has a protrusion portion formed at a first end. The main body section is disposed on a second surface and has an input section and a depressed portion. The depressed portion is formed at a second end of the second surface and has a pierced portion and a housing portion. The pierced portion is formed from the second surface to an opposite surface thereof such that a battery is attached to the pierced portion. The housing portion axially houses the protrusion portion on a side opposite to the input section with respect to the pierced portion.

Information processing apparatus

At a first step, a disc is mounted on a playback apparatus. Subsequently, at a second step, CD-TEXT data recorded in the lead-in area of the disc is read out and decoded before being stored into a memory unit. Then, the CD-TEXT data containing character information is searched for a string of characters. The second step is followed by a third step to form a judgment as to whether or not a string of characters representing address information has been found in the search. If found, then at a fourth step, the string of characters found in the search is recognized as address information and displayed in a format for a string of characters representing a URL or an electronic-mail address. As a result, CD-TEXT data can be searched for a string of characters which is recognized as address information.

Apparatus and method for reproducing character information recorded on a recording medium

To determine whether a record medium loaded on a drive has character information in a management area of the record medium corresponding to data received from the drive and to obtain the character information when the record medium has the character information as the determined result. A system includes an optical disc drive and a host computer connected through an interface , wherein the drive has a servo and signal processing portion , a system controller , and a CD-ROM signal processing portion . The servo and signal processing portion reproduces data from a disc . The system controller controls the entire operation of the drive. Return data is sent from the drive to the host computer corresponding to a read table of contents (TOC) command received from the host computer . A code that represents the data length is contained in a header of the return data. With the code, it is determined whether or not the disc is a CD-TEXT disc. When the, disc is a CD-TEXT disc as the determined result, the read TOC command is re-issued. Thus, CD-TEXT data is obtained.

Method for reading a CD having CD-text data

A reproducing method for obtaining character information in a plurality of languages from a CD-ROM drive and automatically displaying the character information in the most proper language on a screen. An optical disc drive and a host computer,are connected through an interface,. The drive has a servo and signal processing portion,, a system controller,, and a CD-ROM signal processing portion,. The servo and signal processing portion,reproduces data from a disc,. The system controller,controls the entire operation of the drive. The drive sends back return data corresponding to a read TOC command to a computer,. The computer,determines whether or not CD-TEXT data contains character information of a language corresponding to the country information of the OS. When the CD-TEXT data contains the character information, the computer,displays the character information. Otherwise, the computer,displays character information in a predetermined language (English of block,).

Method for displaying data on a CD having CD-text data

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yosuke Suzuki