Abstract: An electrode material has a solid concentration of 72% or more. It includes a composite particle, a sulfide solid electrolyte, and a solvent. The composite particle includes an active material and a fluoride solid electrolyte. The fluoride solid electrolyte covers at least part of a surface of the active material. The sulfide solid electrolyte is adhered to the composite particle.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a conveyor, a sound collector, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys a sheet. The conveyor conveys a sheet in a sheet conveyance direction. The sound collector collects an operating sound generated by a conveyance of the sheet. The circuitry is to extract a feature amount of the operating sound collected by the sound collector, and determine, at different positions in the sheet conveyance direction based on the feature amount, whether an abnormal conveyance of the sheet occurs until the sheet is conveyed to a given position in the sheet conveyance direction.

Abstract: In an image forming device, a first fixing member has a roller. A second fixing member has a belt to form a nip together with the first fixing member. A pressure modifying mechanism modifies a nip pressure at the nip to selected one of a first nip pressure and a second nip pressure smaller than the first nip pressure. A controller drives the first motor to drive the roller and fixes the developer image on a sheet in a state that the nip pressure is the first nip pressure. The controller modifies the nip pressure from the first nip pressure to the second nip pressure while driving the first motor in a case where a final sheet among one or more sheets fixed according to a print job has passed the nip, and halts the first motor after the nip pressure is modified to the second nip pressure.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming engine, a sheet tray, a discharge tray, a main body including the image forming engine, a feeding path, and a reconveying path configured to reconvey a sheet which an image has been formed on one side thereof to the feeding path, and a controller. The controller is configured to, when successively printing a preceding job whose page count is three or more and a successive job whose page count is two or more in duplex printing, feed a first sheet while printing the preceding job and print an image corresponding to the successive job on one side of the first sheet, and discharge a last sheet of the preceding job in a state where the first sheet which the image has been formed on the one side thereof is in the feeding or reconveying path.

Abstract: In an image forming device, a first fixing member has a roller. A second fixing member has a belt to form a nip together with the first fixing member. A pressure modifying mechanism modifies a nip pressure at the nip to selected one of a first nip pressure and a second nip pressure smaller than the first nip pressure. A controller drives the first motor to drive the roller and fixes the developer image on a sheet in a state that the nip pressure is the first nip pressure. The controller modifies the nip pressure from the first nip pressure to the second nip pressure while driving the first motor in a case where a final sheet among one or more sheets fixed according to a print job has passed the nip, and halts the first motor after the nip pressure is modified to the second nip pressure.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a controller causes a first fixing member to heat up to a standby temperature Tr lower than a fixing temperature, through a control process executed from a state in which rotation of the first fixing member is stopped and a nip pressure is set at a second pressure smaller than a first pressure. The control process includes: a first process of activating and controlling a heater to cause the first fixing member to heat up toward a target temperature; a second process of starting the rotation of the first fixing member; a third process of changing the nip pressure from the second pressure to the first pressure; a fourth process of changing the nip pressure from the first pressure to the second pressure; and a fifth process of stopping the rotation of the first fixing member, executed in this sequence.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a roller, a heater configured to heat the roller, an endless belt, a nip forming member, a supply roller configured to supply a sheet, and a controller. The sheet is nipped between the endless belt and the roller. The endless belt is nipped between the nip forming member and the roller such that a nip portion is formed. The controller is configured to supply a plurality of first kind of sheets by the supply roller at a first interval when the plurality of first kind of sheets are sequentially conveyed and supply a plurality of second kind of sheets by the supply roller at a second interval greater than the first interval when the plurality of second kind of sheets belonging to a kind in which curl occurs more frequently than the plurality of first kind of sheets are sequentially conveyed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body housing, a first cartridge to store first developer, a second cartridge to store second developer, a first temperature sensor to detect an inside temperature as a temperature inside the main body housing, and a controller configured to calculate a first control temperature corresponding to the first cartridge, using the detected inside temperature and a first coefficient to be multiplied by the inside temperature, calculate a second control temperature corresponding to the second cartridge, using the detected inside temperature and a second coefficient to be multiplied by the inside temperature, the second coefficient being different from the first coefficient, and perform cooling control to cool an inside of the main body housing when at least one selected from the first control temperature and the second control temperature is higher than a particular threshold.

Abstract: A cell unit includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, a separator, a negative electrode active material layer and a negative electrode current collector which are laminated on one another, the cell unit comprising a frame member arranged between the positive electrode current collector and an opposing negative electrode current collector and fixing a peripheral edge portion of the separator, and an electronic component for detecting the state inside the cell unit, wherein the electronic component is arranged in a region between the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector, and the electronic component arranged in the region is electrically connected to the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lithium-ion battery with the configuration where optical signals are output from the light-emitting parts of each unit cell that constitutes the assembled battery, wherein the complexity of wiring can be reduced, and the allowable amount of misalignment can be increased. In a lithium-ion battery (1) in which an assembled battery (50) configured by a plurality of laminated unit cells (30) is accommodated in an outer package (70), each of the unit cell is provided with a light-emitting part (20) that emits light based on the characteristics of the unit cell concerned to output an optical signal, and an optical waveguide (light guide plate) (60) is arranged adjacent or close to a light-emitting surface of the light-emitting part to be a common transmission path of the optical signal from the light-emitting part of the plurality of unit cells.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus and method, in which performed are reading an image of an original document, converting a read image to raster data, raising a temperature of a fixing device to a fixing temperature, after raising the temperature of the fixing device, recording an image on the sheet on a sheet and causing the fixing device to fix the developing agent image onto the sheet. When a preview setting is enabled, after performing the converting, the preview image is displayed on the display and the raising is performed after the displaying and in response to an execution instruction of the forming. When the preview setting is not enabled, after performing a pre-heating of the fixing device so that the temperature of the fixing device is lower than the fixing temperature, performing the raising without displaying the preview image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductive drum, a developing roller, a sheet supplier, a fixing unit, and a controller. The fixing unit includes a heating roller, a first heater, a second heater, a first temperature sensor, and a second temperature sensor. The controller is configured to control the first heater so that a first detected-temperature becomes a target temperature at a central area, and control the second heater so that a second detected-temperature becomes a target temperature at an end area, and in accordance with a heat storage amount of the fixing unit stored by the heating of the second heater, change (i) a timing when supply of the sheet is started or (ii) the target temperature at the end area.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body housing, a first cartridge to store first developer, a second cartridge to store second developer, a first temperature sensor to detect an inside temperature as a temperature inside the main body housing, and a controller configured to calculate a first control temperature corresponding to the first cartridge, using the detected inside temperature and a first coefficient to be multiplied by the inside temperature, calculate a second control temperature corresponding to the second cartridge, using the detected inside temperature and a second coefficient to be multiplied by the inside temperature, the second coefficient being different from the first coefficient, and perform cooling control to cool an inside of the main body housing when at least one selected from the first control temperature and the second control temperature is higher than a particular threshold.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a battery has a stacking step in which a plurality of unit cells are stacked, the unit cells being such that a positive electrode obtained by a positive electrode active material layer containing an electrolytic solution disposed on a positive electrode current collector, and a negative electrode obtained by a negative electrode active material layer containing an electrolytic solution disposed on a negative electrode current collector with a separator interposed therebetween. In the stacking step, each time one of the unit cells is stacked, the stack of the unit cells are pressed from the stacking direction.

Abstract: A cell system includes: a stacked-type cell module (100) having a plurality of lithium ion unit cells (1) being stacked and having through holes (3a, 3b) formed therein; a gas supply part (31); a cooling liquid supply part (32); a temperature sensor (35); and a control part (36) that controls switching between a normal control mode and a high-temperature control mode based on a signal from the temperature sensor (35). In the normal control mode, the control part (36) controls the gas supply part (31) to supply a gas to the through holes (3a, 3b), and at the same time, controls the cooling liquid supply part (32) to stop supply of a cooling liquid, and in the high-temperature control mode, the control part (36) controls the cooling liquid supply part (32) to supply the cooling liquid to the through holes (3a, 3b) to which the gas is supplied, and at the same time, controls the gas supply part (31) to stop supply of the gas.

Abstract: To uniformly dilute particulate matter contained in a sample gas, a diluter includes an inflow portion, a mixing portion, a discharge portion, a connection portion, and an introduction portion. The inflow portion allows a sample gas to flow in. The mixing portion has an inner diameter larger than that of the inflow portion, and mixes the sample gas with a dilution gas to generate a diluted sample gas. The discharge portion discharges the diluted sample gas. The connection portion has a first tapered part whose inner diameter increases from a side connected to the inflow portion toward a side connected to the mixing portion. The introduction portion introduces the dilution gas into an internal space from a position downstream of the connection between the first tapered part and the inflow portion.

Abstract: An electrode for a lithium-ion battery, comprising a resin current collector; and an electrode active material layer formed on the resin current collector, and containing coated electrode active material particles in which at least a part of a surface of an electrode active material particle is coated with a coating layer including a polymer compound, wherein the resin current collector has a recess on a principal surface that comes into contact with the electrode active material layer, the relationship between the maximum depth (D) of the recess and the D50 particle size (R) of the electrode active material particles satisfies 1.0R?D?6.5R, and the relationship between the length (S) of the shortest part of the length passing through the center of gravity of the recess and the D50 particle size (R) of the electrode active material particles satisfies 1.5R?S.

Abstract: A lithium-ion battery system which can appropriately determine the presence or absence of an abnormality of a unit cell. It is provided with an assembled battery formed by stacking a plurality of battery units, each of the plurality of battery units including a unit cell consisting of a lithium-ion battery and a signal output part provided in the unit cell; a signal receiving part for receiving an optical signal output by the signal output part in each of the plurality of battery units; an analysis processing part for analyzing the optical signal received by the signal receiving part; and a state determination part for determining that the assembled battery is abnormal in accordance with the analysis result of the analysis processing part.

Abstract: This antivibration sound insulation device is provided with: an antivibration mechanism which is mounted on a stand and disposed close to a prescribed sound source at a plant; and sound-absorbing sound insulation walls which are supported by the antivibration mechanism and arranged so as to surround the sound source.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device including a heating roller configured to heat a sheet when the heating roller rotates, a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the heating roller; and a controller configured to obtain a temperature detected by the temperature sensor at intervals of a predetermined sampling time, calculate, at the intervals of the predetermined sampling time, a temperature-decrease-amount of the detected temperature over a unit time that is longer than the predetermined sampling time, and stop rotation of the heating roller when the calculated temperature-decrease-amount is greater than a predetermined threshold value.