Abstract: A vehicle cleaner system that includes a single pump and a plurality of cleaners which are connected to the single pump and clean different cleaning target objects with a cleaning medium is disclosed. The cleaning target objects include a sensor which detects information on outside of a vehicle and a cleaner control unit which operates the plurality of cleaners in accordance with input of a signal. The cleaner control unit is capable of operating the plurality of cleaners such that cleaning methods of the plurality of cleaners are different from each other.

Abstract: A positive electrode for an all-solid-state battery that comprises a sulfide-based solid electrolyte and a covered active material. The covered active material includes a positive electrode active material particle and a coating film covering at least part of a surface of the positive electrode active material particle. The coating film includes a lithium-ion-conductive oxide, and also includes NOx at at least a surface thereof. A NOx content at the surface of the coating film is more than 1000 ppm.

Abstract: A surface modifying method of modifying a bonding surface of a substrate to be bonded to another substrate by plasma of a processing gas includes an adjusting process and a modifying process. In the adjusting process, an amount of moisture in a processing vessel is adjusted by supplying a humidified gas into the processing vessel allowed to accommodate the substrate therein. In the modifying process, the bonding surface of the substrate is modified by forming the plasma of the processing gas in the processing vessel in a state that the amount of moisture in the processing vessel is adjusted.

Abstract: An electrode comprises a sulfide-based solid electrolyte and a composite particle. The sulfide-based solid electrolyte includes S and P, has a PS4 crystalline phase, and has a molar ratio of the PS4 crystalline phase to a total amount of phases consisting of P and S of 60% or more. The composite particle comprises a positive electrode active material particle and a coating film covering at least part of a surface of the positive electrode active material particle. The coating film includes a phosphorus compound. The phosphorus compound includes at least one of a first element (a glass network forming element) and a second element (a transition element) as well as phosphorus. In the coating film, a relationship of “expression (1): CLi/(CP+CE1+CE2)?2.5” is satisfied. CLi, CP, CE1, and CE2 represent element concentrations of respective elements measured by XPS.

Abstract: A composite particle comprising: a positive electrode active material particle; and a coating film, wherein the coating film covers at least part of a surface of the positive electrode active material particle, and the coating film includes fluorine and at least one selected from the group consisting of phosphorus and a glass network forming element.

Abstract: A solid-state battery having a low heat generation amount and low resistance, and a method for producing the same. The solid-state battery is a solid-state battery comprising: a cathode comprising a cathode layer that contains an oxide-based cathode active material, an anode comprising an anode layer that contains an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer being disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and containing a solid electrolyte, wherein at least any one of the cathode layer and the solid electrolyte layer contains a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, and wherein the sulfide-based solid electrolyte comprises a high oxygen concentration layer on a contact surface with the oxide-based cathode active material, the high oxygen concentration layer having a higher oxygen element concentration than other parts except the contact surface.

Abstract: An electrode comprises a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, an electrolyte microparticle, and a composite particle. The sulfide-based solid electrolyte includes S and P, has a PS4 crystalline phase, and has a molar ratio of the PS4 crystalline phase to a total amount of phases consisting of P and S of 60% or more. A ratio of a D50 of the electrolyte microparticle to a D50 of the sulfide-based solid electrolyte is 0.5 or less. The composite particle comprises a positive electrode active material particle and a coating film. The coating film includes a phosphorus compound. The phosphorus compound includes at least one of a first element (a glass network forming element) and a second element (a transition element) as well as phosphorus. In the coating film, a relationship of “expression (1): CLi(CP+CE1+CE2)?2.5” is satisfied. CLi, CP, CE1, and CE2 represent element concentrations of respective elements measured by XPS.

Abstract: A composite particle includes a positive electrode active material particle and a coating film. The positive electrode active material particle contains a lithium-containing composite oxide having a layered rock salt structure, and the coating film covers at least a part of a surface of the positive electrode active material particle. The coating film contains a phosphate compound, and satisfies a relationship of the following formula (1): XP/T ? 0.04 (1). In the above formula (1), XP indicates a mass fraction of phosphorus contained in the composite particle measured by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy, and T indicates a film thickness of the coating film measured by a scanning electron microscope.

Abstract: A composite particle includes a positive electrode active material particle and a coating film. In a method for producing the composite particle, the coating film covers at least a part of a surface of the positive electrode active material particle, the coating film contains a phosphorus compound, and a glass-transition temperature of the coating film is 300° C. or less.

Abstract: A solid-state battery having a low heat generation amount and low resistance, and a method for producing the same. The solid-state battery is a solid-state battery comprising: a cathode comprising a cathode layer that contains an oxide-based cathode active material, an anode comprising an anode layer that contains an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer being disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and containing a solid electrolyte, wherein at least any one of the cathode layer and the solid electrolyte layer contains a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, and wherein the sulfide-based solid electrolyte comprises a high oxygen concentration layer on a contact surface with the oxide-based cathode active material, the high oxygen concentration layer having a higher oxygen element concentration than other parts except the contact surface.

Abstract: The conductive material is used for the positive electrode of the battery. The conductive material includes a substrate and a film. The film covers at least a portion of the surface of the substrate. The substrate comprises a conductive carbon material. The film includes a glass network forming element and oxygen.

Abstract: In a method for producing a coated active material, a coating layer containing niobium is formed on at least a part of a surface of an active material. The method includes: transforming a slurry containing the active material and a coating solution containing niobium into droplets to obtain slurry droplets; drying the slurry droplets in a heated gas stream to obtain a precursor; and baking the precursor. The active material that is used to obtain the slurry droplets contains less than 0.68 wt% of sulfur as an impurity.

Abstract: The coating liquid includes a solute and a solvent. The solute comprises a phosphoric acid compound and a lithium compound. The coating liquid has a pH of 2.5 to 10.7.

Abstract: The composite particle includes a positive electrode active material particle and a coating film. The coating film covers at least a part of a surface of the positive electrode active material particle. The coating film includes a phosphorus compound. The phosphorus compound includes at least one of Na and K and P.

Abstract: In a method for producing a coated active material, a coating layer containing Nb is formed on at least a part of a surface of an active material. The method includes: transforming a slurry containing the active material and a coating solution containing Nb into droplets to obtain slurry droplets; drying the slurry droplets in a heated gas stream to obtain a precursor; and baking the precursor. When obtaining the slurry droplets, a temperature of the slurry before the slurry is transformed into droplets is 5° C. or more and less than 25° C.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a coated active material capable of reducing a battery resistance. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a coated active material comprising: an active material including Ni, and a coating layer configured to coat at least a part of a surface of the active material, and a NiO layer is formed between the active material and the coating layer, and an average thickness of the NiO layer is 0.9 nm or less.

Abstract: A composite particle includes a positive electrode active material particle and a coating film. The coating film covers at least a part of a surface of the positive electrode active material particle. The coating film includes a phosphorus compound. The phosphorus compound includes either or both of a first element and a second element, and phosphorus. The first element is a glass network-forming element. The second element is a transition element. The relationship of CLi/(CP+CE1+CE2)?2.5 is satisfied, where CLi, CP, CE1, and CE2 represent elemental concentrations obtained by measuring the composite particle by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, CLi represents an elemental concentration of lithium, CP represents an elemental concentration of phosphorus, CE1 represents an elemental concentration of the first element, and CE2 represents an elemental concentration of the second element.

Abstract: The coating liquid includes a solute and a solvent. The solute comprises a phosphoric acid compound. “I0/(I0+I1+I2)” is 0.7 or less. In the 31P-NMR spectrum, I0 indicates the area of the signal from the PO4, Q0 unit, I1 indicates the area of the signal from the PO4, Q1 unit, and I2 indicates the area of the signal from the PO4, Q2 unit.

Abstract: A composite particle includes a positive electrode active material particle and a coating film. The coating film covers at least part of a surface of the positive electrode active material particle. The coating film includes a phosphorus compound. The composite particle satisfies a relationship of “CLi/CP?2.5”. “CLi” represents a concentration of Li element measured by XPS. “CP” represents a concentration of P element measured by XPS.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method in which both the suppression of granulation of an active material and the acceleration of production steps are achieved when producing an electrode mixture containing a coated active material. The method comprises dropletizing a slurry containing an active material and a coating liquid to obtain slurry droplets, gas-flow drying the slurry droplets in a heating gas to obtain a first and a second precursor, and firing the first and the second precursor to obtain a first and second particle, wherein the first precursor contains the active material and a component from the coating liquid, the second precursor is free of the active material and contains a component from the coating liquid, the first particle has the active material and a coating layer, and the second particle is free of the active material and contains a component same as that constituting the coating layer.