Abstract: In a cylindrical sieve, a first frame 7 is provided with a first ring plate 7a arranged in a radial direction and a ring plate 7b extended inward in an axial direction X of the sieve from an inner end of the first ring plate 7a. The ring plate 7b has an inwardly warped end. A ring projection 2a is fit in a ring-shaped cavity K1 defined by a ring recess 10a and the first frame 7. The ring plate 7b presses the ring projection 2a outward in the radial direction to prevent the ring projection 2a from being slipped off the matching recess. Through holes 7c (counter bores) are formed in the first frame 7 along the axial direction X. Four of the through holes 7c are used to fasten the rods 6 and receive the Phillips head screws 6f seated therein, and the remaining through holes 7c receives Phillips head screws 20 (see FIG. 1) seated therein for reinforced linkage of the first frame 7 with the holder frame 11.

Abstract: An alkaline battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an alkaline electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode includes a positive electrode material mixture including nickel oxyhydroxide, electrolytic manganese dioxide and expanded graphite, the expanded graphite has an average particle diameter on a volume basis of 5 to 25 ?m, a BET specific surface area of 4 to 10 m2/g, and a bulk specific gravity (apparent density) measured by a static method of 0.03 to 0.10 g/cm3, the nickel oxyhydroxide has an average nickel valence of not less than 3.05, and a content of the expanded graphite in a total amount of the nickel oxyhydroxide, the electrolytic manganese dioxide and the expanded graphite that are included in the positive electrode material mixture of 3 to 15 wt %.

Abstract: A zinc-alkaline battery includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte. The negative electrode contains a zinc alloy powder including 20 to 50 wt % of a micropowder with a particle size of 75 ?m or less. In a constant resistance discharge, a time period for the negative electrode potential to rise is shorter than a time period for the positive electrode potential to fall.

Abstract: An alkaline battery includes a positive electrode mixture, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode mixture and the negative electrode. The positive electrode mixture contains a nickel oxyhydroxide, manganese dioxide and a conductive agent. (1) The nickel oxyhydroxide includes at least manganese dissolved therein, and the manganese accounts for 0.5 to 10% by mole of the total amount of metal elements contained in the nickel oxyhydroxide. (2) The nickel oxyhydroxide mainly has a ?-type crystal structure. (3) The nickel oxyhydroxide has a volume-basis mean particle size of 8 to 15 ?m. The use of this positive electrode mixture makes it possible to heighten the capacity of the alkaline battery and improve its storage characteristics. Also, the above-mentioned properties of the nickel oxyhydroxide including manganese enable a significant improvement in the productivity of the nickel oxyhydroxide.

Abstract: An alkaline battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode material mixture including nickel oxyhydroxide. The nickel oxyhydroxide includes a secondary particle with a crystal structure mainly composed of ?-type at at least a portion of the surface layer of the secondary particle, and with a crystal structure mainly composed of ?-type in the inner portion of the secondary particle. Based on the present invention, the advantage of the alkaline battery, i.e., excellence in discharge performance under high-load, can be kept and the conventional problem of storage characteristics can be improved.

Abstract: Disclosed is an alkaline battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an alkaline electrolyte, (1) the positive electrode having a positive electrode material mixture containing electrolytic manganese doxide and nickel oxyhydroxide, (2) the nickel oxyhydroxide having a crystal in which at least Mg is dissolved, and (3) the nickel oxyhydroxide having a tap density determined after 500 taps of not less than 2 g/cm3, an average particle size based on volume of 8 to 20 ?m, and an average nickel valence of 2.95 to 3.05.

Abstract: A sterilizer, having a hopper (2) allowing powders and grains to be filled therein; a first rotary valve (3) disposed under the hopper; and a second rotary valve (4) formed under the first rotary valve, wherein an airtight space (5), allowing therethrough travel of the powders and grains, is formed between the first rotary valve (3) and the second rotary valve (4), the airtight space (5) being communicated with a saturated steam injection pipe (23) injecting a saturated steam into the airtight space (5).

Abstract: A nickel oxyhydroxide having a ?-type structure is used to greatly improve low-temperature discharge performance and pulse discharge performance under high-load of an alkaline primary battery including a positive electrode containing nickel oxyhydroxide. In the nickel oxyhydroxide having ?-type structure, a half-width of a peak of the (001) plane is 0.2 to 0.49° in a powder X-ray diffraction, an average particle size (D50) based on the secondary particle volume is 5 to 10 ?m, and an average valence of nickel is 2.9 to 3.0.

Abstract: A roaster for powder and granular material capable of effectively roasting powder and granular material to the inside thereof to provide high quality powder and granular material and capable of effectively avoiding the possibility of causing contamination since the possibility of dewing is less even if the material is cooled. The roaster 1 comprises an charging port 2 in which the powder and granular material is thrown, a drum 30 in which the powder and granular material thrown from the charging port 2 is stored, and a heating unit 49 heating the powder and granular material stored in the drum 30. A preheating chamber 3 in which the powder and granular material thrown from the charging port 2 is preliminarily heated and which communicates with the drum 30 is formed between the charging port 2 and the drum 30.

Abstract: There is disclosed an alkaline battery including a positive electrode material mixture, a negative electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode material mixture and the negative electrode, and an alkaline electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode material mixture includes a first active material comprising nickel oxyhydroxide and a second active material comprising manganese dioxide, the nickel oxyhydroxide includes a ?-type crystal structure, the content of nickel in the nickel oxyhydroxide is not less than 45 wt %, and the average particle diameter on a volume basis of the nickel oxyhydroxide measured with a laser diffraction particle size distribution analyzer is 3 to 20 ?m.

Abstract: An inline sifter including a gas-powder mixture receiving module which receives a mixture of a gas and powdery material from an inlet, a sieving module which communicates with a supply chamber of the gas-powder mixture receiving module, a rotating mechanism which is laterally extended inside the supply chamber and the sieving chamber, a cylindrical sieve arranged such that the rotating shaft extended in said sieving chamber passes through a center thereof, a wind power amplifier located in an internal area of the sieve to amplify wind power and press the powdery material out from the sieve, a removal member used to remove a remaining material from the sieve, an outlet used to discharge material which has passed through the sieve, and a support member. The gas-powder mixture, being supplied in a circumferential direction of the supply chamber, flows around the rotating shaft and is fed into the sieving chamber.

Abstract: A booster 8 extending in an internal area 53 of a sieve 7 is attached to the outer circumferential face of a rotating shaft 6. The booster 8 has four blades 82, which are radially extended from the outer circumferential face of the rotating shaft 6 and are arranged at preset angles (for example, 90 degrees) to form a pi shape from the front view. The booster 8 has multiple (for example, two) cross-shaped radial members 81 that are arranged radially at a little angle (for example, 3 degrees) and are located on both ends of the rotating shaft 6 via a preset space, the blades 82 that are set in and fixed to the respective ends of each of the radial members 81 and are inclined at a preset angle to the axial direction of the rotating shaft 6, and sheet-like scrapers 83 that are attached to the blades 82 to be a little projected outward in the radial direction. The end of each scraper 83 faces the inner circumferential face of the sieve 7 across a little gap.

Abstract: An alkaline battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an alkaline electrolyte, the positive electrode including a positive electrode material mixture containing a nickel oxyhydroxide, electrolytic manganese dioxide and a graphite conductive material, wherein the nickel oxyhydroxide includes a crystal having manganese dissolved therein and having a ? type structure, and the amount of the manganese contained in the nickel oxyhydroxide is 0.5 to 10 mol % relative to the total amount of nickel and the manganese in the nickel oxyhydroxide.

Abstract: A rotary valve allowing a rotor to be stored rotatably in a tubular powder granular material feeding chamber in a casing, storing and feeding powder granular material received from a powder granular material feed port to the troughs of the rotor, and discharging the powder granular material from a powder granular material discharge port to the outside, wherein an inspection hole having an openable inspection door is provided in the casing, a magnetic foreign matter attracting member formed of a plurality of magnets is installed in the troughs so as to allow to rotate integrally with the rotor, magnetic foreign matter mixed in the powder granular material is attracted to the magnetic foreign matter attracting members, and the said inspection door is opened to allow the magnetic foreign matter to be removed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium rechargeable battery including a negative electrode comprising a copper core material, to which is fixed an active material made by mixing artificial graphite particles A obtained by kneading and granulating a base material of pulverized bulk mesophase pitch with pitch in a softened state and/or thermosetting resin, carbonizing the resulting granules at 700 to 1,500° C. and graphitizing the carbonized granules at 2,500 to 3,000° C. with spherical graphite particles B having a high mean circularity, with a view to inhibiting the deterioration in battery capacity through the repeated charge/discharge cycles, which occurs remarkably in a high energy density lithium rechargeable battery, and providing excellent discharge characteristic and safety.

Abstract: In a cylindrical sieve, a first frame 7 is provided with a first ring plate 7a arranged in a radial direction and a ring plate 7b extended inward in an axial direction X of the sieve from an inner end of the first ring plate 7a. The ring plate 7b has an inwardly warped end. A ring projection 2a is fit in a ring-shaped cavity K1 defined by a ring recess 10a and the first frame 7. The ring plate 7b presses the ring projection 2a inward in the radial direction to prevent the ring projection 2a from being slipped off the matching recess. Through holes 7c (counter bores) are formed in the first frame 7 along the axial direction X. Four of the through holes 7c are used to fasten the rods 6 and receive the Phillips head screws 6f seated therein, and the remaining through holes 7c receives Phillips head screws 20 (see FIG. 1) seated therein for reinforced linkage of the first frame 7 with the holder frame 11.

Abstract: A scrap floating prevention mechanism is provided. The scrap floating prevention mechanism includes a die holder formed with a first communication pipe which sends compressed fluid. The scrap floating prevention mechanism also includes a mounting table formed with a second communication pipe which comes into communication with the first communication pipe and which sends compressed fluid to the first communication pipe. The die holder is placed on and fixed to the mounting table. The scrap floating prevention mechanism further includes a fluid injecting member which is formed with multiple inclined injecting pipes for injecting compressed fluid from the first communication pipe and which is provided below the die.

Abstract: A rotary valve allowing a rotor (8) to be stored rotatably in a tubular powder granular material feeding chamber (6) in a casing, storing and feeding powder granular material (P) received from a powder granular material feed port (9) to the troughs (17) of the rotor (8), and discharging the powder granular material from a powder granular material discharge port (10) to the outside, wherein an inspection hole having an openable inspection door is provided in the casing, a magnetic foreign matter attracting member formed of a plurality of magnets (26) is installed in the troughs (17) so as to allow to rotate integrally with the rotor (8), magnetic foreign matter (M) mixed in the powder granular material (P) is attracted to the magnetic foreign matter attracting members, and the said inspection door is opened to allow the magnetic foreign matter (M) to be removed.

Abstract: In a nickel-metal hydride storage battery comprising: an electrode plate assembly including current collectors on the top and bottom portions; an alkaline electrolyte; and a battery case having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped part for accommodating the electrode plate assembly and the alkaline electrolyte, the capacity degradation due to deep discharge and reverse charge inherent to a nickel-metal hydride storage battery is suppressed by setting the amount of the alkaline electrolyte at 70 to 90% of the volume V of the residual space in the battery represented by the equation (1): V=S·h?(V1+V2+V3+V4) (1), where S is the cross sectional area of the inner space of the substantially rectangular parallelepiped part, h is the height of the electrode plate assembly, V1 is the true volume of the positive electrode plate, V2 is the true volume of the negative electrode plate, V3 is the true volume of the separator, and V4 is the volume of the two current collectors.

Abstract: A lithium-ion rechargeable battery, comprising a positive electrode capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions, a negative electrode capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode comprises a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode material mixture layer carried on the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode material mixture layer comprises graphite and carbon nano-tubes, and an amount of the carbon nano-tubes in the negative electrode material mixture layer is not smaller than 0.1 part by weight and not larger than 10 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the graphite.