Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material having a high capacity and improved output characteristics. The positive electrode active material included in this non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a lithium-containing complex oxide having a layered rock salt structure, and a sulfonic acid compound that is present on the surface of the lithium-containing complex oxide. The lithium-containing complex oxide contains 80 mol % or more of Ni, 1.5 mol % or more of Co, and 4 mol % or more of Al based on the total molar number of metal elements excluding Li. The sulfonic acid compound is represented by the general formula I. (In the formula, A is a Group 1 element or a Group 2 element, R is a hydrocarbon group, and n is 1 or 2.

Abstract: A liquid supply device supplying a liquid to a printer includes a supply tube and an agitator. The supply tube configures a supply flow path of the liquid to the printer. The supply tube is connected to a tank configured to store the liquid. The tank is provided further upstream than the printer in the supply flow path. The supply tube is configured to supply the liquid from the tank toward the printer. The agitator includes a stirrer and is configured to perform an agitation operation of driving the stirrer and agitating the liquid inside the tank.

Abstract: A printing device includes: a support portion configured to move in a first direction; a head configured to eject ink onto a printing medium supported by the support portion; an ejector device configured to eject a treatment liquid to a region including at least both ends of the support portion in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a bottom plate located below the support portion, both ends of the bottom plate being located outside the both ends of the support portion in the second direction; and a pair of partition plates extending in the first direction and disposed between the both ends of the bottom plate in the second direction and between the bottom plate and the support portion in an up-down direction. Inner surfaces of the partition plates are located between the both ends of the support portion in the second direction.

Abstract: This non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises: an electrode body in which a strip-shaped positive electrode and a strip-shaped negative electrode are wound with a separator interposed therebetween; a bottomed cylindrical exterior body having an outer diameter of 25 mm or more, that is connected to the negative electrode; and a sealing body that seals an opening at the upper end of the exterior body and is connected to the positive electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive-electrode current collector, and a positive-electrode mixture layer formed on the surface of the positive-electrode current collector, the positive-electrode mixture layer containing a positive-electrode active material and a phosphorus compound. The positive-electrode active material includes a lithium-containing composite oxide having a layered rock-salt structure. The weight per unit area of the positive-electrode mixture layer is 250 g/m2 or more.

Abstract: A liquid supply system includes one or a plurality tubes, a supply mechanism, a first sensor and a processor. The one or plurality tubes is connected to a tank. The tank is provided further upstream than a printer. The one or plurality of supply tubes configured to supply the liquid from the tank toward the printer. The supply mechanism is provided in the one or plurality of tubes, and switches between a supply state and a supply stopped state. The processor determines, based on a signal from the first sensor, whether the server remaining amount is equal to or less than a predetermined remaining amount. When the server remaining amount is equal to or less than the predetermined remaining amount, the processor supplies the liquid from the tank toward the printer via the one or plurality of supply tubes.

Abstract: A lithium-containing complex transition metal oxide forming the positive electrode active material of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell in one embodiment is a secondary particle obtained by aggregating primary particles and has a BET specific surface area of 0.9 m2/g or less. The surface of each primary particle comprises 0.3 to 2.5% lithium carbonate, no more than 0.35% lithium hydroxide, and 2 to 200 ppm of a nitrogen compound relative to the total mass of the lithium-containing complex transition metal oxide.

Abstract: This positive electrode active substance for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery contains: a lithium-containing transition metal oxide having secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles; and at least a tungsten compound and a boron compound that are present between primary particles. The present invention is characterized in that: the amount of tungsten element eluted when the positive electrode active substance is washed for 5 minutes with a 0.01 mol/L aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide is 60% or less of the amount of tungsten element detected when the positive electrode active substance is dissolved in a mixed acid containing hydrofluoric acid, nitric acid and hydrochloric acid; and the amount of boron element eluted when the positive electrode active substance is washed for 1 minute with ion exchanged water is 80% or more of the amount of boron element detected when the positive electrode active substance is dissolved in hydrochloric acid.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes an opening and closing portion including a supporting portion, the opening and closing portion configured to move to a closed position and to an opened position that is a sheet feeding position, a sheet feeding portion, an opening and closing detection portion configured to detect the sheet feeding position, a separating portion configured to blow air toward the plurality of sheets supported on the supporting portion to separate the sheets, and a control portion configured to execute a separating mode of performing an air blowing operation by the separating portion in feeding the sheets by the sheet feeding portion. In the separating mode, the control portion is configured to stop the air blowing operation in a case where movement of the opening and closing portion from the sheet feeding position toward the closed position has been detected by the opening and closing detection portion.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a supporting portion, a sheet feeding unit, a side edge regulation plate, a separation unit configured to separate the sheets by blowing air onto the plurality of sheets supported by the supporting portion, a regulation plate position detection unit configured to detect a position of the side edge regulation plates in the width direction, and a control unit configured to execute a separation mode so as to perform an air-blow operation by the separation unit in feeding the sheets by the sheet feeding unit. In the separation mode, in a case where the position of the side edge regulation plate detected by the regulation plate position detection unit does not correspond to size of the sheets supported by the supporting portion in the width direction, the control unit is configured to stop the air-blow operation.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a supporting portion, a feeding portion, a separating portion, a type detection portion, a control portion, and a type input portion. The type input portion inputs information on a type of the sheet supported by the supporting portion. The control portion selectively executes a first mode in which the type of the sheet supported by the supporting portion is set by information detected by the type detection portion while the sheet is fed, and a second mode in which the type of the sheet supported by the supporting portion is set by the information input by the type input portion to execute feeding of the sheet. The control portion executes a setting process of setting an air blowing operation to be executed in the first mode, and a choosing process of choosing one of the first mode and the second mode.

Abstract: A tire includes a tread surface portion with inclined grooves, 2ND longitudinal grooves, and shoulder longitudinal grooves; and an indicator portion that indicates a rotation direction of the tire in which a vehicle travels forward. The inclined groove gradually extends forward in the rotation direction toward a tire equator from the outside in the tire width direction. A front surface among inner surfaces defining the inclined groove includes a first side surface with an inner end portion to which the 2ND longitudinal groove is open, a second side surface positioned closer to an inside than the first side surface and of which an outer end portion is positioned closer to a rear side than the inner end portion of the first side surface, and a stepped surface that connects an inner edge of the first side surface to an outer edge of the second side surface and faces the outside.

Abstract: A lithium-containing complex transition metal oxide forming the positive electrode active material of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell in one embodiment is a secondary particle obtained by aggregating primary particles. Ion chromatography analysis of a sample obtained by adding the positive electrode active material to an alkali solution and absorbing a distillate thereof in sulfuric acid results in detection of 2-200 pm of ammonia relative to the mass of the positive electrode active material. When a filtrate of an aqueous dispersion in which 1 g of the positive electrode active material is dispersed in 70 ml of pure water is titrated with hydrochloric acid, the value of Y?X is 50-300 mol/g and the value of X?(Y?X) is no higher than 150 mol/g, with X mol/g being the acid consumption until a first inflection point on the pH curve and Y mol/g being the acid consumption until a second inflection point.

Abstract: A processor of a liquid supply system performs circulation processing based on a circulation setting relating to a unit increase amount that is an amount by which a remaining amount of a liquid in a server or printer tank increases as a result of second circulation processing, per unit time from an end of first circulation processing to an end of the second circulation processing. The processor changes the circulation setting from a first setting to a second setting based on information relating to consumption of the liquid inside the server or printer tank in a predetermined time period. A specific tank is a tank in which the remaining amount increases when the circulation processing is performed based on the first setting. The unit increase amount of the specific tank in the second setting is less than the unit increase amount of the specific tank in the first setting.

Abstract: A processor of a liquid supply system performs correction processing of performing a supply operation or a return operation and delivering a liquid of a correction amount from a tank of increase to a tank of decrease. The correction amount corresponding to less than two times a circulation change amount and is an amount of change in a remaining amount of the liquid in a server tank or a printer tank from before to after circulation processing of performing the supply operation and the return operation. The tank of increase is a tank, of the server tank and the printer tank, in which the remaining amount of the liquid increases from before to after the circulation processing. The tank of decrease is a tank, of the server tank and the printer tank, in which the remaining amount of the liquid decreases from before to after the circulation processing.

Abstract: A liquid supply system supplies a liquid from a server tank to a printer tank via a tube by a liquid delivery mechanism. A processor of the liquid supply system causes the liquid delivery mechanism to perform a supply and return operations. A first tank is one of the server tank or the printer tank. A second tank is different from the first tank, of the server tank and the printer tank. The processor causes the liquid delivery mechanism to perform a liquid delivery operation before the supply and return operations, when a remaining amount of the liquid in the first tank becomes equal to or greater than a first prescribed remaining amount. The liquid delivery operation is the supply or return operation of delivering the liquid from the first tank to the second tank via the tube.

Abstract: A printing device includes a housing, a head arranged inside the housing and configured to eject a liquid, a fan arranged inside the housing, a humidifier configured to supply humidified air to a supply port arranged at an exhaust port side of the fan, and a filter arranged at a fan side of the supply port.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet accommodating portion, an image forming portion, an accommodating portion opening portion, a lifter plate, a lifter plate lifting and lowering mechanism, a lower-limit detecting portion, a control unit lowering the lifter plate and opening the accommodating portion in accordance with an operation in a set mode of a plurality of modes when the control unit receives an instruction to open the accommodating portion, wherein the modes includes a first mode in which the accommodating portion is opened irrespective of whether or not the lifter plate lowers to the lower-limit position and a second mode in which the accommodating portion is opened after the lifter plate lowers to the lower-limit position; and an operating portion operable by an operator for changing setting of the mode, between the modes, executed when the control unit receives the instruction to open the accommodating portion.

Abstract: A printer includes a container configured to store a liquid, a transducer configured to humidify air by causing the liquid stored in the container to vibrate, a first change mechanism including at least one of a first valve or a first pump, and configured to change a liquid level of the liquid stored in the container, a first sensor configured to output a first detection signal indicating that the liquid level reaches a first height, a processor, and a memory storing computer-readable instructions that instruct the processor to perform processes. The processes include change processing of controlling the first change mechanism and changing the liquid level, and first maintaining processing of, after the change processing is performed, controlling the first change mechanism and maintaining the liquid level at a maintained position lower than the first height and higher than the bottom surface of the container.

Abstract: A printing device includes an inkjet head, a filter accommodating portion, a filter configured to be accommodated in the filter accommodating portion and extending in a given direction from one end to the other end of the filter to collect mist, and a grip portion provided at least one of the one end or the other end of the filter. The grip portion includes a handle protruding from the filter, a recessed portion recessed inside the filter, or a hole.

Abstract: A liquid supply system includes one or a plurality tubes, a supply mechanism, a first sensor and a processor. The one or plurality tubes is connected to a tank. The tank is provided further upstream than a printer. The one or plurality of supply tubes configured to supply the liquid from the tank toward the printer. The supply mechanism is provided in the one or plurality of tubes, and switches between a supply state and a supply stopped state. The processor determines, based on a signal from the first sensor, whether the server remaining amount is equal to or less than a predetermined remaining amount. When the server remaining amount is equal to or less than the predetermined remaining amount, the processor supplies the liquid from the tank toward the printer via the one or plurality of supply tubes.