Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Apb Corporation

Nitto-denko Corporation

Jsr Corporation

Yusuke Nakashima

Hideaki Horie

Yuki Kusachi

Atsuhiko Yamaguchi

Yasuhiko Ohsawa

Hiroshi Akama

Hajime Satou

Kouji Yasukawa

Naofumi Shoji

Kazuya Minami

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Ryo Okuzumi

Kazuya Tsuchida

Koji Sumiya

Yusuke Mizuno

Takeshi Nakano

Ryota Ogura

Masafumi Maeda

Noriyuki Ito

Yasuyuki Koga

Nobuo Ando

Hideki Ohta

Yasuhiro Shindo

Takayuki Mizuta

Tomohiro Kaburagi

Gentaro Kano

Terukazu Kokubo

Takao Kawazu

Kenichi Tagami

Shigehito Asano

Noboru Yamauchi

Shotaro Doi

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Atsushi Ito

Takashi Mori

Hiroyuki Sakakibara

Teruhiko Namiki

Shuji Saito

Kenichi Kawakita

Kenjiro Minomi

Wataru Ogihara

Kazuki Arihara

Shinya Kobayashi

Satoru Nagashima

Erika Terada

Yusuke Emori

Takamasa Nakagawa

Eiji Minegishi

Ryosuke Kusano

Atsushi Horai

Kotaro Nasu

Naoko Urushihara

Yuki Nekohashi

Naoya Omae

Kaho Suzuki

Takumi Hatazoe

A fixing apparatus includes a first rotary member, a nip forming member, a second rotary member, a heating element, a temperature detection element, a holder configured to hold the temperature detection element, and an urging member configured to urge the holder toward the nip forming member to bring the holder into contact with the nip forming member. The holder includes a base member configured to receive an urging force from the urging member, and a head member to which the temperature detection element is attached, the head member being configured to be in contact with the base member and tiltable with respect to the base member. The head member is configured to be urged toward the nip forming member by the urging force and to tilt following a portion of the nip forming member opposing the head member.

Temperature detection apparatus having a base member that moves in a thickness direction of a heater, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A fixing apparatus includes a heater including a heating member, a heater holder configured to hold the heater, a detection element configured to detect a temperature of the heater and disposed at a position that faces the heater in a third direction, a first holding member configured to hold the detection element, an urging member configured to urge the first holding member, a flexible member extending in the first direction and configured to support the first holding member on a first end portion of the flexible member in the first direction, and a second holding member configured to hold a second end portion of the flexible member in the first direction. The flexible member is flexible such that the first holding member and the second holding member are movable relative to each other in the third direction.

Temperature detection device, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A fixing unit includes a film including a tubular shape and configured to rotate, a heater arranged inside the film and including a heating resistor configured to generate heat by passing alternating current therethrough and an insulator configured to cover the heating resistor, a sliding member arranged between the heater and the film and configured to be in sliding contact with an inner surface of the film, the sliding member having electric conductivity, a pressing member configured to be in pressure contact with the sliding member across the film to form a nip portion between the sliding member and the pressing member, and a conductive member electrically connected to a ground potential via at least one impedance element. The sliding member is electrically connected to the conductive member.

Fixing unit and image forming apparatus

A power control device includes a heater, a zero-cross detecting unit, a triac, a supplying unit, and a controlling unit. The supplying unit discharges an electric charge when a control signal is outputted in a half-wave of each of a first polarity and a second polarity and charges the electric charge when the control signal is not outputted in the half-wave of the first polarity. The controlling unit outputs: in a first half-wave, a first control signal on the basis of the zero-cross point and a second control signal in a first phase different in timing from the first control signal, and in a second half-wave, a third control signal on the basis of the zero-cross point and a fourth control signal in a second phase different in timing from the second control signal. The first phase and the second phase are different from each other.

Power control device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

An examination method includes bringing conductor probes into contact with surfaces of an examination target to measure voltage or electric resistance at points on the surfaces of the examination target, and determining whether or not the voltage or the electric resistance is out of an allowable range at any of the points. The examination target is a resin current collector, an electrode sheet having an active material layer laminated on a resin current collector, a separator-attached electrode sheet in which a separator is combined with an electrode sheet, or a unit cell including one set of a positive electrode resin current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, a separator, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode resin current collector, which are laminated in order. With the examination method, a defect such as a short circuit can be easily found and production yield can be improved.

Examination method for malfunction detection

A predoping method for a negative electrode active material to dope the negative electrode active material with lithium ions using an electrolyte solution that includes lithium ions. The electrolyte solution includes at least one type of additive having a reduction potential higher than a reduction potential of a solvent contained in the electrolyte solution.

Predoping method for negative electrode active material, manufacturing method for negative electrode, and manufacturing method for power storage device

Provided is a technique capable of further improving the cycle characteristics in a negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which a silicon-based negative electrode active material and a carbon-based negative electrode active material are used in combination as a negative electrode active material, and constituent components of the electrode are not bound to each other via a binder. The negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention has a configuration in which a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material is formed on a surface of a current collector. The negative electrode active material contains composite secondary particles in which silicon-based negative electrode active material particles and carbon-based negative electrode active material particles are bound to each other via a binder. Here, the content of the binder in the composite secondary particles is 1% by mass or more with respect to the total mass of the silicon-based negative electrode active material particles and the carbon-based negative electrode active material particles. Further, in the negative electrode active material layer, the composite secondary particles are characterized to exist in a state of being not bound to each other via a binder.

Negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same

A battery device comprises a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with an electric power generating element and a pressing member which presses the electric power generating element in the stacking direction. The electric power generating element comprises: a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material layer of a positive electrode active material on the surface of a positive electrode collector; a negative electrode with a negative electrode active material layer of a negative electrode active material on the surface of a negative electrode collector; and a separator which holds an electrolyte solution. This battery device satisfies (1) 0.1<(T1−T2)/T1×100<5, where T1 is the thickness of the thickest portion of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction, and T2 is the thickness of the thinnest portion of the of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction.

Battery device

A heating unit includes a board including metal, an insulating layer including insulating material and formed on a surface of the board, a heating element disposed on the insulating layer to generate heat by passing an electric current through the heating element, and a conductive portion electrically connecting the heating element and the board to each other. The heating unit further includes a first power supplying electrode electrically connected to the heating element and a second power supplying electrode electrically connected to the board. The heating element, the conductive portion and the board constitute an electric circuit between the first power supplying electrode and the second power supplying electrode. The heating element generates the heat in a case where the first power supplying electrode and the second power supplying electrode are electrically connected to a power source and the electric current is passed through the electric circuit.

Heating unit, fixing unit, and image forming apparatus for heat generation performance and miniaturization

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

A predoping method for a negative electrode active material to dope the negative electrode active material with lithium ions. The predoping method for a negative electrode active material includes: a predoping process and a post-doping modification process. In the predoping process, the negative electrode active material is doped with lithium ions, to thereby reduce a potential of the negative electrode active material relative to lithium metal. In the post-doping modification process, after the predoping process, reaction is caused between a reactive compound that is reactive with lithium ions and lithium ions doped into the negative electrode active material, to thereby increase the potential of the negative electrode active material relative to lithium metal. The potential of the negative electrode active material relative to lithium metal is 0.8 V or more at completion of the post-doping modification process.

A negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery provides a means for improving output characteristics at a high rate. The negative electrode has a negative electrode active material layer having a thickness of 150 to 1500 &#x3bc;m formed on a surface of a current collector. In addition, the negative electrode active material layer includes coated negative electrode active material particles in which at least a part of a surface of a negative electrode active material is coated with a coating agent containing a coating resin and a conductive aid. Furthermore, a porosity of the negative electrode active material layer is 39.0% to 60.0% and a density of the negative electrode active material layer is 0.60 to 1.20 g/cm.

Negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery

The present invention provides a nucleic acid molecule dimer that includes a first nucleic acid molecule having complementarity with at least part of a target nucleic acid molecule, and a second nucleic acid molecule having complementarity with the first nucleic acid molecule, wherein the first nucleic acid molecule has a linear form, the second nucleic acid molecule has a cyclic form, and the first and second nucleic acid molecules at least partially form a double strand.

Regulation of nucleic acid molecule expression

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yusuke Nakashima