Abstract: A housing of a multi-control valve includes an arm parallel passage, an arm crowding supply passage, an arm pushing supply passage, a boom parallel passage, a boom raising supply passage, and a boom lowering supply passage. The housing further includes: a slide hole; a head-side passage that is branched off from the boom raising supply passage and extends to the slide hole; a rod-side passage that is branched off from the boom lowering supply passage and extends to the slide hole; and a regeneration passage that extends from the slide hole to the arm parallel passage. The slide hole receives a boom sub spool therein. The boom sub spool is either a boom recycling spool or a boom regeneration spool.

Abstract: A hydraulic excavator drive system (1) includes an arm control valve (31) and an arm switching valve (41). The arm switching valve (41) is connected to an arm pushing supply line (34) by a rod-side line (42) and to an arm crowding supply line (35) by a head-side line (43). The arm switching valve (41) is switched between a neutral position, a recycling position in which the arm switching valve (41) allows the rod-side line (42) to communicate with the head-side line (43) and a second tank line (44), and a meter-out control position in which the arm switching valve (41) allows the head-side line (43) to communicate with the tank line (44). The arm switching valve (41) incorporates therein a check valve (45) that allows a flow from the rod-side line (42) toward the head-side line (43) when the arm switching valve (41) is in the recycling position.

Abstract: A hydraulic excavator drive system includes: a first pump connected to a head-side chamber of a boom cylinder; and a second pump that supplies hydraulic oil to at least one of an arm cylinder or a bucket cylinder. The first pump is driven by an electric motor. The drive system further includes: a first switching valve located on a rod-side line; and a second switching valve located on a relay line. The first switching valve opens the rod-side line at a boom raising operation, but blocks the rod-side line except at the boom raising operation. The second switching valve blocks the relay line at the boom raising operation, but opens the relay line at a vehicle body lifting operation.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a high-endurance and long-life nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a battery case having sealing performance unlikely to be degraded. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a closed-end cylindrical outer can, a sealing body that closes an opening of the outer can, a resin gasket disposed between the outer can and the sealing body, a sealing member interposed between the outer can and the gasket, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The sealing member has a multilayer structure including a first sealing member layer, the main constituent of which is one selected from butadiene rubber, urethane rubber, silicone rubber, chloroprene rubber, and isoprene rubber, and a second sealing member layer, the main constituent of which is one selected from ethylene propylene rubber, ethylene propylene diene rubber, and fluoro rubber.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a high-endurance and long-life nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a battery case having sealing performance unlikely to be degraded. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a closed-end cylindrical outer can, a sealing body that closes an opening of the outer can, a resin gasket disposed between the outer can and the sealing body, a sealing member interposed between the outer can and the gasket, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The sealing member has a multilayer structure including a first sealing member layer, the main constituent of which is one selected from butadiene rubber, urethane rubber, silicone rubber, chloroprene rubber, and isoprene rubber, and a second sealing member layer, the main constituent of which is one selected from ethylene propylene rubber, ethylene propylene diene rubber, and fluoro rubber.

Abstract: A cylindrical lithium ion battery in which an electrode group formed by winding a positive electrode and a negative electrode is housed in a battery case is disclosed. A sealing plate seals an opening of the battery case. An insulating plate having a plurality of openings is provided on a side of the electrode group closer to the sealing plate. The plurality of openings include a first hole with a largest opening area, and a plurality of second holes with opening areas smaller than the opening area of the first hole. An opening ratio of the first hole is 12% or more and 40% or less; a sum of opening ratios of the second holes is 0.3% or more and 10% or less; and a total opening ratio of all the openings is 20% or more and 50% or less.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having good cycle characteristics. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode active material is a layered lithium transition metal oxide, and the positive electrode active material has a crystallite size of 140 nm or less. The negative electrode active material contains at least carbon, and the nonaqueous electrolyte contains 2 to 30% by volume of fluoroethylene carbonate.

Abstract: A cylindrical lithium ion battery in which an electrode group formed by winding a positive electrode and a negative electrode is housed in a battery case is disclosed. A sealing plate seals an opening of the battery case. An insulating plate having a plurality of openings is provided on a side of the electrode group closer to the sealing plate. The plurality of openings include a first hole with a largest opening area, and a plurality of second holes with opening areas smaller than the opening area of the first hole. An opening ratio of the first hole is 12% or more and 40% or less; a sum of opening ratios of the second holes is 0.3% or more and 10% or less; and a total opening ratio of all the openings is 20% or more and 50% or less.

Abstract: It is an object to improve the initial charge-discharge efficiency of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that uses, as negative electrode active materials, a carbon material and a metal or metal oxide that forms an alloy with lithium. There is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte, and a negative electrode which includes, as negative electrode active materials, a carbon material and a metal or metal oxide that forms an alloy with lithium and in which at least part of a surface of the carbon material is coated with a polymer material that does not react with lithium. The mass percentage of the polymer material that does not react with lithium relative to the carbon material is preferably 0.5 to 2 mass %.

Abstract: A cylindrical lithium ion battery in which an electrode group formed by winding a positive electrode and a negative electrode is housed in a battery case is disclosed. A sealing plate seals an opening of the battery case. An insulating plate having a plurality of openings is provided on a side of the electrode group closer to the sealing plate. The plurality of openings include a first hole with a largest opening area, and a plurality of second holes with opening areas smaller than the opening area of the first hole. An opening ratio of the first hole is 12% or more and 40% or less; a sum of opening ratios of the second holes is 0.3% or more and 10% or less; and a total opening ratio of all the openings is 20% or more and 50% or less.

Abstract: Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries are provided which are resistant to a decrease in capacity associated with charge and discharge cycles and have excellent discharge rate characteristics. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an example embodiment includes a positive electrode including a lithium transition metal oxide, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The lithium transition metal oxide has a content of voids within particles of 0.2 to 30% before first charging. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes a fluorinated cyclic carbonate and a fluorinated chain carboxylate ester.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a positive electrode 4 including a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer containing a positive electrode active material and a binder, the positive electrode mixture layer being provided on the positive electrode current collector; a negative electrode 5; a porous insulating layer 6 interposed between the positive electrode 4 and the negative electrode 5; and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode 4 has a tensile extension percentage of equal to or higher than 3.0%. The positive electrode current collector is made of aluminum containing iron. In this manner, the tensile extension percentage of the positive electrode is increased without a decrease in capacity of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. Accordingly, even when the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is destroyed by crush, occurrence of short-circuit in the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery can be suppressed.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having good cycle characteristics. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode active material is a layered lithium transition metal oxide, and the positive electrode active material has a crystallite size of 140 nm or less. The negative electrode active material contains at least carbon, and the nonaqueous electrolyte contains 2 to 30% by volume of fluoroethylene carbonate.

Abstract: The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the invention includes: a wound-type electrode group including a long positive electrode, a long negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; a nonaqueous electrolyte; and a prismatic battery case accommodating the electrode group and the nonaqueous electrolyte. A horizontal cross-section of the electrode group has a major axis and a minor axis. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer disposed thereon, and the negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer disposed thereon. A tensile strength of the positive electrode when an elongation percentage in a longitudinal direction of the positive electrode is 1% is not greater than 15 N/cm.

Abstract: A cylindrical lithium ion battery in which an electrode group formed by winding a positive electrode and a negative electrode is housed in a battery case is disclosed. A sealing plate seals an opening of the battery case. An insulating plate having a plurality of openings is provided on a side of the electrode group closer to the sealing plate. The plurality of openings include a first hole with a largest opening area, and a plurality of second holes with opening areas smaller than the opening area of the first hole. An opening ratio of the first hole is 12% or more and 40% or less; a sum of opening ratios of the second holes is 0.3% or more and 10% or less; and a total opening ratio of all the openings is 20% or more and 50% or less.

Abstract: Provided is a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a high capacity and an improved cycle life. The battery includes an electrode group and a non-aqueous electrolyte, and has a volume energy density of 650 Wh/L or more. The electrode group includes wound positive and negative electrodes with a separator interposed therebetween. The positive and negative electrodes each include a current collector and a material mixture layer adhering thereto. The positive and negative electrode material mixture layers each have a porosity Pp of 22% or less and porosity Pn of 25% or less. The ratio VE/VT of a volume VE of the electrolyte to a total VT of the pore volumes of the positive and negative electrode material mixture layers, and the separator is 1 to 1.5. The difference between contact angles CAp and CAn of the positive and negative electrodes with respect to the non-aqueous electrolyte is 23° or less.

Abstract: A cylindrical lithium ion battery in which an electrode group formed by winding a positive electrode and a negative electrode is housed in a battery case is disclosed. A sealing plate seals an opening of the battery case. An insulating plate having a plurality of openings is provided on a side of the electrode group closer to the sealing plate. The plurality of openings include a first hole with a largest opening area, and a plurality of second holes with opening areas smaller than the opening area of the first hole. An opening ratio of the first hole is 12% or more and 40% or less; a sum of opening ratios of the second holes is 0.3% or more and 10% or less; and a total opening ratio of all the openings is 20% or more and 50% or less.

Abstract: A method for producing a positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention includes the steps of: (1) producing a positive electrode precursor by applying a positive electrode slurry including a positive electrode active material comprising a lithium-containing composite oxide including nickel, a binder, and a conductive agent on a positive electrode core material, the positive electrode active material including secondary particles having an average particle diameter of 8 ?m or more, and then drying the positive electrode slurry to form a positive electrode material mixture layer; and (2) rolling while heating the positive electrode precursor to produce a positive electrode in which 3.5 g or more of the positive electrode active material is included per 1 cm3 of the positive electrode material mixture layer, and the positive electrode active material includes secondary particles having an average particle diameter of 5 ?m or more.

Abstract: In a wound electrode group, a positive electrode includes positive electrode active material layers formed on both surfaces of a band-like positive electrode current collector, and a negative electrode includes negative electrode active material layers on both surfaces of a band-like negative electrode current collector. Charge capacity of the negative electrode falls within a range of 83-99% of theoretical capacity of the negative electrode in a full charge state of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. An active material mass M1 per unit area of a negative electrode active material layer formed on an outer circumference of the negative electrode current collector, and an active material mass M2 per unit area of a negative electrode active material layer formed on an inner circumference satisfy a relational expression of M1/M2<(R1+t/2)/(R1?t/2), where the electrode group has an innermost diameter of R1, and the negative electrode has a thickness of t.

Abstract: It is an object to improve the initial charge-discharge efficiency of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that uses, as negative electrode active materials, a carbon material and a metal or metal oxide that forms an alloy with lithium. There is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte, and a negative electrode which includes, as negative electrode active materials, a carbon material and a metal or metal oxide that forms an alloy with lithium and in which at least part of a surface of the carbon material is coated with a polymer material that does not react with lithium. The mass percentage of the polymer material that does not react with lithium relative to the carbon material is preferably 0.5 to 2 mass %.