Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element, including an exterior body that is formed in a flat bag shape, and an electrode body that has a sheet-shaped positive electrode and a sheet-shaped negative electrode layered via a separator and that is sealed inside the exterior body together with an electrolytic solution, wherein electrode terminal plates of the positive electrode and the negative electrode are guided in an identical direction from a predetermined margin of the exterior body to an outside of the exterior body, and a support part that is made with a film shaped resin having insulating and heat-resistant properties is formed on principal surface sides of the electrode terminal plates at a region that is along the predetermined margin and covers up to tip ends of the electrode terminal plates.

Abstract: A circuit substrate, a plurality of supporting members that are arranged at intervals in a longitudinal direction of the circuit substrate and support both longitudinal ends of the circuit substrate, and a housing onto which the supporting members are fixed are included.

Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply unit is configured such that, during charging of a first battery pack, and until, after the first battery pack is charged to a fully charged state, the voltage of the first battery pack is lowered below an upper limit voltage of a load device, discharging of the first battery pack is prohibited, and discharging of the second battery pack is allowed, and such that, during charging of a second battery pack, and until, after the second battery pack is charged to a fully charged state, the voltage of the second battery pack is lowered below the upper limit voltage of the load device, discharging of the second battery pack is prohibited, and discharging of the first battery pack is allowed.

Abstract: A nickel-hydrogen secondary battery includes: an outer can; a sealing body including a positive electrode terminal, the sealing body sealing an opening of the outer can; an electrode group formed by placing a positive electrode and a negative electrode on top of each other with a separator therebetween and spirally winding the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the electrode group housed in the outer can along with an alkaline electrolyte; a positive electrode current collector connected to positive electrode connection edge portion protruding from one end surface of the electrode group; and a current collecting lead connecting the positive electrode current collector and the sealing body, wherein a relationship between a deformation resistance A of a material a and a deformation resistance B of a material b satisfies a relationship of A<B, wherein the material a is a material of the current collecting lead, and the material b is a material of the positive electrode current collector.

Abstract: Slurry is prepared by dispersing a solvent containing fibrous carbon (carbon nanotube, vapor grown carbon fiber (VGCF (registered trademark))) by using a media-type disperser, and the slurry to be applied to a collector is obtained by kneading the prepared slurry and an electrode active material. As a media-type disperser, for example, a ball mill disperser or a bead mill disperser is used. The dispersion using the media-type disperser is performed for 5 to 10 hours. As a dispersant, for example, at least any one of a nonionic dispersant, an ethylenic dispersant, a polymeric dispersant and an amine dispersant is used. The dispersion is performed so that a fiber length of the fibrous carbon becomes 2 to 7 ?m.

Abstract: A series-coupling component for a battery pack includes a circular plate-shaped bulkhead portion, a cylinder portion taking the bulkhead portion as a top surface and opening downward, an upper end side of the unit battery being inserted into the cylinder portion, and a wall surface portion erected upwardly along a peripheral edge of the bulkhead portion to hold a lower end side of the unit battery, separated by a cutout portion from an upper end of a cylindrical side surface up to a top surface of the bulkhead portion at a part of the cylindrical side surface that opens at the upper side taking the bulkhead portion as a bottom, the bulkhead portion has a hole that communicates in an up and down direction and a groove that has a rectangular cross-section on a top surface and opens at peripheral edges of the hole and the bulkhead portion.

Abstract: An inductor includes: a U-shaped core 10 in which legs 10b are integrally formed on two ends of a flat plate portion 10a including an outer surface that is a surface to be placed on a heat sink; an I-shaped core 11 bridging the legs of the U-shaped core 10; a coil 12 wound around an outer periphery of the I-shaped core 11; and an adhesive or a heat-release sheet 16 having thermal conductivity of 0.4 W/m·K or above that is interposed between the coil 12 and an inner peripheral surface of the U-shaped core 10.

Abstract: An inductor includes: a coil; a first separate cover made of insulating resin, the first separate cover including a wall inserted into the coil from one end of the coil along one side of an inner peripheral surface of the coil, and a flange continued from the wall and abutting on the one end; a second separate cover made of insulating resin, the second separate cover including a wall inserted into the coil from another end of the coil along another side of the inner peripheral surface of the coil, and a flange continued from the wall and abutting on the other end; and a conductive core to be stored between the wall of the first separate cover and the wall of the second separate cover in the coil.

Abstract: An electronic module is provided with a circuit board including a central-axis insertion hole and composed by laminating a multitude of wiring layers; and a core formed of a magnetic material and inserted through the central-axis insertion hole, wherein the circuit board includes a plurality of coil wiring patterns formed in positions of the respective wiring layers surrounding the core insertion hole; and edge-face through-holes formed on inner wall surfaces of the central-axis core insertion hole to electrically connect the plurality of coil wiring patterns to form a coil, the central-axis insertion hole has a octagon shape in plan view, concave portions are disposed on the inner wall surfaces corresponding to sides of the octagon shape, and the edge-face through-holes are formed in the concave portions.

Abstract: A spacer in a square shape and includes an upper groove section provided on an upper surface, and a lower groove section provided on a lower surface. The upper groove section includes a first upper groove fittable with a first lower end edge of a first frame of a battery module located on the upper side, and a second upper groove fittable with a second lower end edge of a second frame of the battery module located on the upper side. The lower groove section includes a first lower groove fittable with a first upper end edge of the first frame of the battery module located on the lower side, and a second lower groove fittable with a second upper end edge of the second frame of the battery module located on the lower side.

Abstract: A coil device includes two core members, one of which is E-shaped. The E-shaped core member has left and right side faces, and a center leg that extends in a vertical direction. A conducting wire is wound around a core, the core being composed of the two core members arranged to face each other in the vertical direction with a gap between the two core members. The conducting wire is wound around the center leg. First and second heat-sinking plates made of metal are bent so as to be in contact with upper and side faces of the core. The first and second plates are arranged so that first edges of the plates are placed left-right symmetrically with respect to the core with a gap between the edges. Second edges of the plates are in contact with a metal heat-sinking board where the core is placed.

Abstract: A battery can forming steel plate that configures an electrode can (a positive electrode can) of an alkaline battery and is to be formed into a battery can by presswork, the steel plate as a base material includes an iron and nickel diffusion layer or an iron and nickel-cobalt alloy diffusion layer that is formed by forming a nickel plated layer or a nickel-cobalt alloy plated layer with a thickness of 0.5 to 2.0 ?m on an inner surface of a battery can of a steel plate (base material steel plate) as a base material, and subsequently performing heat diffusion treatment on the nickel plated layer or the nickel-cobalt alloy plated layer. An average number of crystal grains per 0.25 mm2 unit area of the steel plate as the base material is equal to or more than 12.3.

Abstract: In a cylindrical battery including a gap formed between a peripheral side surface 32b of a dish-shaped portion in an anode terminal plate 32 and a curved end portion 11a of a cathode can 11, and a washer 50 having a cylindrical boss portion 50a and an annular flange portion 50c provided around an upper end surface of the cylindrical boss portion 50athe washer 50 being mounted to an opening portion of a cathode can 11 such that the cylindrical boss portion 50a is fitted into the gap 201, a vent structure configured to release gas released to the gap 201 from a first vent hole 32c in the anode terminal plate 32 to an exterior of the cylindrical battery (1) from an arc-shaped second vent hole (50d) formed in the flange portion(50c) or an annular gap (301, 302) formed between the upper end surface of the cylindrical boss portion (50a) and the terminal plate(32).

Abstract: A nickel-hydrogen secondary battery includes an electrode group including a separator, a positive electrode and a negative electrode, the positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material, the positive electrode active material includes a composite particle including a compound of Co and a compound of Ni, and the ratio R represented by A/B satisfies a relationship of R?0.3, when the amount of jumping in the X-ray absorption fine structure spectrum of the Co in 7600 to 7800 eV and the amount of jumping in the X-ray absorption fine structure spectrum of the Ni in 8300 to 8500 eV obtained by measurement according to a conversion electron yield method are defined as A and B, respectively.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a first frame, a second frame, and assembled batteries. The first frame includes a top edge and a bottom edge. The top edge includes an inner projecting piece, an outer projecting piece distanced from the inner projecting piece, an outer depressed part, and an inner depressed part. The bottom edge includes a center projecting piece that is disposed in a position corresponding to a gap between the inner projecting piece and the outer projecting piece when the bottom edge is engaged with the top edge of another first frame and that has a thickness fitting this gap, and an outer engagement projection and an inner engagement projection provided in positions corresponding to the outer depressed part and the inner depressed part.

Abstract: An electrode plate constituting a positive electrode or a negative electrode of a battery and having a flat plate shape including a sheet-shaped current collector made of metal foil and coated with a slurry electrode material containing an electrode active material, a conductive auxiliary agent, a binder, and a thickener, the thickener being propylene glycol alginate.

Abstract: A laminated transformer includes a magnetic substance layer, a coil lamination stacked on the magnetic substance layer, the coil lamination having formed thereinside a primary coil and a secondary coil, the primary coil being wound spirally in convolutions in a stacking direction, the secondary coil being wound spirally in convolutions in the stacking direction and formed inside the primary coil, a magnetic substance filling inside of the secondary coil in the coil lamination, and a non-magnetic substance filling a region between the primary coil and the secondary coil and filling outside of the primary coil in the coil lamination.

Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element includes a flat plate-shaped electrode body and an exterior body. The electrode body is configured by stacking a sheet-shaped positive electrode and a sheet-shaped negative electrode on either side of a separator. The exterior body is formed in a flattened bag-shape by thermocompression bonding peripheral edge regions of two opposing laminated films, to seal the electrode body inside the flattened bag-shape of the exterior body together with an electrolyte. The separator has a sheet-shaped substrate and at least one bonding layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate. A peripheral edge portion of the separator is sandwiched between and bonded by the two laminated films at a peripheral inside of the peripheral edge regions of the two laminated films.

Abstract: There is provided a balancing device that equalizes voltages between storage cells of a battery composed of a plurality of series-connected storage cells or voltages between electrical storage modules composed of a plurality of series-connected storage cells of the battery. The balancing device equalizes voltages between the energy storage modules by transferring electric power between the electrical storage modules through an element to which all of the electrical storage modules are connected, the transferring being realized by on-off control of current supply to each of the electrical storage modules, the on-off control being performed with a first duty cycle. Further, the balancing device introduces a period in which the on-off control is performed with a second duty cycle, the second duty cycle being different from the first duty cycle.