Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery including a cathode layer, an anode layer including an anode active material and a coating including a metal element, wherein the coating is disposed on the anode active material; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein the coating has an electrochemical reaction potential with lithium that is greater than an electrochemical reaction potential of the anode active material with lithium.

Abstract: An all-solid secondary battery including: a cathode including a cathode active material layer; an anode including an anode active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer including a sulfide solid electrolyte between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer, wherein an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of an interface between the cathode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer is about 1 micrometer or less, and a relative density of the solid electrolyte layer is about 80% or more.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery wherein the cathode layer comprises a cathode active material particle having a coating layer that is on at least a portion of a surface of the cathode active material particle, and a solid electrolyte particle which is in contact with the coating layer, wherein an average particle diameter of the cathode active material secondary particle is in a range of about 3 micrometers to about 10 micrometers, wherein the coating layer is amorphous and contains at least one element selected from metal elements not including nickel, and semi-metal elements, and wherein a mole ratio of the at least one element of the coating layer and all of the metal elements, not including lithium, or semi-metal elements in the cathode active material particle is in a range of about 0.1 mole percent to about 10 mole percent.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery including: a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a sulfide solid electrolyte disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode includes a positive active material particle and a coating film including an oxide including lithium (Li) and zirconium (Zr) on a surface of the positive active material particle.

Abstract: To provide a transfer apparatus correcting a curl of a card efficiently while preventing the card from deteriorating, a printing apparatus includes a transfer section transferring a transfer surface of a transfer film to the card, a rotating unit reversing the front side and back side of the card in two-sided transfer, a decurl mechanism correcting a curl of the card with the transfer surface transferred in the transfer section, and a control section controlling the decurl mechanism. The control section controls the decurl mechanism such that a correction amount for the card with the transfer surface transferred to one surface in two-sided transfer is smaller than a correction amount for the card in one-sided transfer, and that the total sum of correction amounts for respective surfaces of the card in two-sided transfer is smaller than the correction amount for the card in one-sided transfer.

Abstract: A positive electrode for an alkali metal-sulfur battery, the positive electrode including: a porous conductive material layer including a plurality of nanocarbon structures of a conductive material, wherein the conductive material defines a plurality of pores between the plurality of nanocarbon structures of the conductive material; sulfur, which is contained in the plurality of pores of the porous conductive material layer; and a polymer film disposed directly on at least a portion of the porous conductive material layer.

Abstract: An anode for an all solid-state secondary battery, the anode including an anode collector, and coating lithium distribution layer disposed on the anode collector, wherein the lithium distribution layer includes a metal capable of forming an alloy with lithium.

Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode wherein least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode includes an electrode active material composite including an electrode active material particle, and a needle-shaped crystal of a first sulfide solid electrolyte in contact with the electrode active material particle, wherein the needle-shaped crystal has an aspect ratio of greater than 2; and a second sulfide solid electrolyte between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and in contact with the electrode active material composite.

Abstract: A composite cathode active material including: a core particle; a first coating layer; and a second coating layer; wherein the core particle includes a cathode active material, the first and second coating layers cover a surface of the core particle, the first coating layer includes a first lithium-containing compound, wherein the first lithium-containing compound includes zirconium, niobium, titanium, aluminum, or a combination thereof, the second coating layer includes a second lithium-containing compound, wherein the second lithium-containing compound includes germanium, niobium, gallium, or a combination thereof, and the first lithium-containing compound is different from the second lithium-containing compound.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a transfer apparatus which can effectively correct a curl of a card and prevent deterioration of the card. The transfer apparatus transfers a transfer layer of a transfer film with a transfer roller to both faces of a card, a transfer unit which includes the transfer roller is structured to perform transfer processing for a plurality of times on at least one face of the card. A controller performs control to perform decurl processing with a decurl mechanism when determining that a transfer face on which the current transfer processing is performed and a transfer face on which the subsequent transfer processing is to be performed are the same and that the card is curled after the current transfer processing is performed.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a transfer apparatus which can effectively correct a curl of a card and prevent deterioration of the card. The transfer apparatus transfers a transfer layer of a transfer film with a transfer roller to both faces of a card, a transfer unit which includes the transfer roller is structured to perform transfer processing for a plurality of times on at least one face of the card. A controller controls transfer sequence of transfer processing so that transfer processing is performed alternately on a first face (front face) and a second face (back face) of a card and so that the number of times of decurl processing with a decurl mechanism is smaller than the number of times of transfer processing.

Abstract: A transfer apparatus includes a transfer device which performs transfer processing to transfer a transfer layer or protection layer to first and second faces of a card-shaped recording medium, a correcting device which performs decurl processing to correct a curl of the recording medium to which the transfer layer is transferred, a transfer sequence determining device which determines a transfer sequence to the first face and the second face of the recording medium, and a control device which controls the transfer device and the correcting device. The transfer sequence determining device determines the transfer sequence so that the transfer processing is performed alternately on the first face and the second face at least once. The control device performs the decurl processing with the correcting device for the difference between the number of times of the transfer processing on the first face and the second face of the recording medium.

Abstract: In order to provide an image forming apparatus which can reduce color deviation at the time of forming an image on a medium, the present printing apparatus comprises an image forming unit which forms an image by superimposing images, each formed with corresponding color of ink, on a transfer film while heating a thermal head, a film conveying device which conveys a transfer film, a sensor which detects a stretch of the transfer film occurring due to heating with the thermal head, a controller which controls the image forming unit to change a line cycle of the thermal head in accordance with a stretch of the transfer film detected by the sensor.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a medium conveying apparatus in which unjamming can be efficiently performed. The medium conveying apparatus includes conveyance rollers configured to convey a card, a rotary unit configured to hold and rotate the card, sensors SN2 and SN26 configured to detect the distance the card has been conveyed, and a control section. If the distance the card has been conveyed that has been detected by the sensors SN2 and SN26 differs from a preset distance L1 (Yes in Step S320), the control section determines (in S328 and S336) whether the card can be positioned in a direction to be delivered from the rotary unit. If the card can be so positioned, a drive motor is controlled, rotating the rotary unit to position the card to be delivered.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a medium conveying apparatus in which the time for unjamming can be shortened. The medium conveying apparatus includes rollers configured to convey a card Ca, a rotary unit F provided in a medium conveyance path and configured to hold and rotate the card Ca, a sensor SN26 arranged downstream the rotary unit F on the medium conveyance path and, and a control section. The control section controls a first card-conveyance motor for driving the rollers to convey the card Ca into the rotary unit F, and determines whether the sensor SN26 detects the card Ca. The sensor SN26 is arranged at the same distance as a sensor SN3 or a shorter distance than the sensor SN3, from the rotary unit F.

Abstract: In order to provide an image forming apparatus capable of forming a high quality image on a film-shaped medium, the present printer includes an image forming section B1 that forms an image on a transfer film using an ink ribbon, a film conveying mechanism that has a motor Mr4 and conveys the transfer film while applying a tension thereto, an ink ribbon conveying section that has a motor Mr3 and conveys the ink ribbon while applying a tension thereto, and a control section that controls the image forming section B1, motor Mr3, and motor Mr4. When adjusting the drive amount of one of the motors Mr3 and Mr4, the control section also adjusts the drive amount of the other one thereof according to the adjustment amount of the one motor.

Abstract: A cathode active material including a first composite oxide represented by Formula (1): xV2O5.Li3PO4??(1) wherein, in Formula 1, x satisfies 2<x?10.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode particle including a positive active material including a lithium salt, and a coating layer including an amorphous carbonaceous layer on a surface of the positive active material, and a sulfide solid electrolyte contacting the coating layer, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte includes a solid sulfide.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, the positive electrode including: a coated particle including a positive active material particle and a reactive layer on the surface of the positive active material particle; and a sulfide-containing solid electrolyte particle which is in contact with the coated particle, wherein the reactive layer includes a reactive element other than lithium and oxygen, wherein the reactive element has a reactivity with the sulfide-containing solid electrolyte particle which is greater than with a reactivity of the reactive element with a transition metal element included in the positive active material particle, and wherein a ratio of a thickness of the reactive layer to a particle diameter of the positive active material particle is in a range of about 0.0010 to about 0.25.

Abstract: A solid state battery includes: a negative electrode layer including a negative electrode active material; a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material; and a solid electrolyte layer installed between the negative electrode layer and the positive electrode layer, wherein the solid electrolyte layer contacts the negative electrode layer and the positive electrode layer, and wherein the solid state battery satisfies Equation 1: {(Vp?V980)/Vp×100}?3%??Equation 1 wherein Vp is a total volume of the negative electrode layer, the positive electrode layer, and the solid electrolyte layer, and V980 is a total volume of the negative electrode layer, the positive electrode layer, and the solid electrolyte layer under the total pressure of about 980 megapascals.