Nissan Motor Company Limited

Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Horiba, Ltd.

Apb Corporation

Gs Yuasa International Ltd.

Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Inc.

Sanyo Chemical Ltd.

Yusuke Mizuno

Hideaki Horie

Hiroshi Akama

Yasuhiko Ohsawa

Yasuhiro Shindo

Yuki Kusachi

Hajime Satou

Yasuhiro Tsudo

Kenichi Kawakita

Tomoki Aoyama

Hiroshi Fukumoto

Masatoshi Okura

Yuta Murakami

Yusuke Nakashima

Yusuke Emori

Kotaro Nasu

Erika Matsumoto

Yohji Kawasaki

Shunsuke Murata

Takahiro Imaishi

Tomohiro Kaburagi

Shigeyuki Akiyama

Takuji Oida

Naofumi Shoji

Kazuyuki Yoda

Ryosuke Kusano

Eiichi Nagaoka

Yo Yagura

Shigeo Watanabe

Takuya Sakurai

Hirotaka Iseki

Jun Tomita

Keiichiro Higashi

Toshiyuki Michikita

Shinjiro Matsuda

Naoya Omae

Yuki Nekohashi

Shota Sando

Kyoko Kassai

Tomomichi Oka

Misato Arakawa

Masamitsu Miyamori

To uniformly dilute particulate matter contained in a sample gas, a diluter includes an inflow portion, a mixing portion, a discharge portion, a connection portion, and an introduction portion. The inflow portion allows a sample gas to flow in. The mixing portion has an inner diameter larger than that of the inflow portion, and mixes the sample gas with a dilution gas to generate a diluted sample gas. The discharge portion discharges the diluted sample gas. The connection portion has a first tapered part whose inner diameter increases from a side connected to the inflow portion toward a side connected to the mixing portion. The introduction portion introduces the dilution gas into an internal space from a position downstream of the connection between the first tapered part and the inflow portion.

Diluter, analysis system, and analysis method

A lithium ion battery including a cell formed by sequentially stacking a positive current collector, a positive active material layer, a separator, a negative active material layer, and a negative current collector, the lithium ion battery being characterized by including a frame member disposed between the positive current collector and the negative current collector to seal the positive active material layer, the separator, and the negative active material layer, the frame member having, disposed therein, an electronic component for detecting an internal condition of the cell.

Lithium ion battery and method for assessing deterioration of lithium ion battery

A method for manufacturing a battery has a stacking step in which a plurality of unit cells are stacked, the unit cells being such that a positive electrode obtained by a positive electrode active material layer containing an electrolytic solution disposed on a positive electrode current collector, and a negative electrode obtained by a negative electrode active material layer containing an electrolytic solution disposed on a negative electrode current collector with a separator interposed therebetween. In the stacking step, each time one of the unit cells is stacked, the stack of the unit cells are pressed from the stacking direction.

Battery manufacturing method

A cell system includes: a stacked-type cell module () having a plurality of lithium ion unit cells () being stacked and having through holes () formed therein; a gas supply part (); a cooling liquid supply part (); a temperature sensor (); and a control part () that controls switching between a normal control mode and a high-temperature control mode based on a signal from the temperature sensor (). In the normal control mode, the control part () controls the gas supply part () to supply a gas to the through holes (), and at the same time, controls the cooling liquid supply part () to stop supply of a cooling liquid, and in the high-temperature control mode, the control part () controls the cooling liquid supply part () to supply the cooling liquid to the through holes () to which the gas is supplied, and at the same time, controls the gas supply part () to stop supply of the gas. According to this cell system, the increase in temperature of the cell is suppressed while having a simple configuration with a reduced formation region of through holes provided in a lithium ion cell.

Cell system

The battery pack has a laminated body in which unit cells are laminated one on another, a cell case having a first opening and containing the laminated body, and a first lid member to tightly close the first opening. The first opening is positioned to face, in connection with a unit cell laminated direction, a first face of the laminated body. The first lid member is configured to, if an internal pressure of the cell case is lower than atmospheric pressure, deform while keeping the tightly closing state, come into contact with the first face of the laminated body, and apply a pressure based on a differential pressure between atmospheric pressure and the internal pressure of the cell case to the contacting face.

Battery pack

The present disclosure provides a secondary battery module capable of optically transmitting measurement data on characteristics of cells forming a battery pack and further reducing a complicated procedure of wiring. The secondary battery module of the present disclosure includes: a battery pack in which a plurality of cell units are connected, each of the cell units including a cell and a light-emitting unit, the cell including a stacked unit and an electrolyte, the light-emitting unit being configured to measure characteristics of the cell and generate an optical signal according to the characteristics; and an optical waveguide into which an optical signal is introduced from the light-emitting unit of each of the cell units, wherein the number of optical waveguides is less than the number of optical signals, and the optical waveguide provides a common optical path through which optical signals are propagated from the light-emitting units provided in the battery pack.

Secondary battery module

The present invention aims to provide an electrode for lithium ion batteries which exhibits excellent electrical conductivity even if its thickness is large. The electrode for lithium ion batteries of the present invention includes a first main surface to be located adjacent to a separator of a lithium ion battery and a second main surface to be located adjacent to a current collector of the lithium ion battery. The electrode has a thickness of 150 to 5000 &#x3bc;m. The electrode contains, between the first main surface and the second main surface, a conductive member (A) made of an electronically conductive material and a large number of active material particles (B). At least part of the conductive member (A) forms a conductive path that electrically connects the first main surface to the second main surface. The conductive path is in contact with the active material particles (B) around the conductive path.

Electrode for lithium-ion cell, lithium-ion cell, and method for manufacturing electrode for lithium-ion cell

An analyzing apparatus includes an X-ray measurement device, an optical characteristic measurement device, and a calculation unit. The X-ray measurement device may be configured to measure fluorescent X-rays generated from the measurement object. The optical characteristic measurement device may be configured to obtain optical characteristics other than the fluorescent X-rays of one or more carbon compounds contained in the measurement object. The calculation unit may be configured to calculate information about a quantity of the one or more carbon compounds contained in the measurement object on the basis of the optical characteristics of the carbon compound(s), and correct the information about fluorescent X-rays measured by the X-ray measurement device on the basis of the information about the quantity of the carbon compound(s).

Analyzing apparatus, analyzing method, and program

An object of the present invention is to provide a negative electrode active material capable of reducing the irreversible capacity of a lithium ion battery. The present invention provides a coated negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries wherein at least a portion of the surface of a particulate negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries is coated with a coating agent and the coated negative electrode active material is doped with at least one of lithium and lithium ions.

Coated negative-electrode active material for use in lithium-ion battery, slurry for use in lithium-ion battery, negative electrode for use in lithium-ion battery, lithium-ion battery, and method for manufacturing coated negative-electrode active material for use in lithium-ion battery

One aspect of the present invention is a positive active material containing an oxide containing lithium and a transition metal element M, in which the transition metal element M is cobalt, iron, copper, manganese, nickel, chromium, or a combination thereof, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the oxide, a ratio (Ia/Ib) of peak intensity Ia appearing in a range where 2&#x3b8; is 20 to 25&#xb0; and peak intensity Ib appearing in a range where 2&#x3b8; is 30 to 35&#xb0; is 0.2 or more and 0.8 or less.

Positive active material, positive electrode, nonaqueous electrolyte energy storage device, method of producing positive active material, and method of producing nonaqueous electrolyte

To more accurately output a signal related to a source of particulate matter floating in the atmosphere, an analyzer is equipped with a mass concentration measuring unit, an element analysis unit, and a source-related signal output unit. The mass concentration measuring unit measures the mass concentration of fine particulate matter (FP) in the atmosphere. The element analysis unit analyzes an element contained in the FP. The source-related signal output unit outputs a signal related to the source of the FP on the basis of the mass concentration measurement result from the mass concentration measuring unit, and the analysis result for the element contained in the FP from the element analysis unit.

Analyzer, analysis system, analysis method and program

To provide a structure which allows production of an electrode, even if the film thickness of an electrode is increased; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a power generating element including: two electrodes having different polarity and formed by forming an active material layer on a current collector; and an electrolyte layer positioned between the electrodes, wherein at least one of the active material layers of the two electrodes having different polarity contains an active material and a conductive member made from an electron conducting material, the active material layer has a first principal surface which comes into contact with the electrolyte layer side, and a second principal surface which comes into contact with the current collector side, at least a part of the conductive member forms a conductive path electrically connecting the first principal surface to the second principal surface, and the conductive path is in contact with the active material in the periphery of the conductive path, at least a part of the surface of the active material is coated with a coating agent that includes a coating resin and a conduction assisting agent, and an electrolyte solution contained in the electrolyte layer or the two electrodes having different polarity is a gel phase electrolyte.

Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same

A laminate type battery includes a power generating element and an outer casing body. The power generating element is formed by electrically laminating in series a plurality of single battery layers in which a single battery layer is formed by sequentially laminating a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, an electrolyte layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector. The power generating element is disposed inside the outer casing body. At least one of the positive electrode current collector or the negative electrode current collector includes a resin layer having conductivity. The single battery layer including the resin layer is electrically connected to an adjacent single battery layer via at least one resistance reduction layer.

Laminate type battery and method for producing the same

The objective of the present invention is to provide an electrode for a lithium ion battery which has excellent electron conductivity even when the thickness of the electrode is increased. The electrode for a lithium ion battery according to the present invention includes a first principal surface located on a separator side of the lithium ion battery, and a second principal surface located on a current collector side, wherein the electrode has a thickness of 50 to 5000 &#x3bc;m, and the electrode includes, between the first principal surface and the second principal surface, short fibers (A) having an average fiber length of 50 nm or more and less than 100 &#x3bc;m, long fibers (B) having an average fiber length of 100 &#x3bc;m or more and 1000 &#x3bc;m or less, and active material particles (C), and the short fibers (A) and the long fibers (B) are electroconductive fibers.

Electrode for lithium ion battery, lithium ion battery, and method for producing electrode for lithium ion battery

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Yusuke Mizuno