Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary cell includes a winding electrode assembly. The exposed area of the positive-electrode metal current collector body is formed at one end in a winding axis direction of the winding electrode assembly, and the exposed area of the negative-electrode metal current collector body is formed at another end in the winding axis direction of the winding electrode assembly; and the negative-electrode metal current collector body is a copper foil rolled to a thickness between 6 ?m and 15 ?m in which one or more of additive elements of Zr, Ag, Au, Pt, Cr, Cd, Sn, Sb, and Bi are added to Cu having a purity of equal to or greater than 99.9%, and the negative-electrode active material mix layer has a cavity volume ratio of between 30% and 60%.

Abstract: To provide a wound dressing having absorbability and improved so as not to be adhere to wounds, a wound dressing 10 is provided, which includes a perforated material 20 having a top face and a bottom face and having plural through-holes 21, and an absorbent material 30 disposed on the top face of the perforated material, and in which at least the bottom face of the perforated material 20 is coated with a silicone resin 40 except leaving at least a part of the through-holes so as not to block up all the through-holes, and at least a part 31 of the absorbent material facing the through-holes of the perforated material is coated with the silicone resin 40, and to allow fluid penetration from the bottom face side of the perforated material into the inside of the absorbent material.

Abstract: The present invention is a planar antenna member configured to introduce electromagnetic waves generated by an electromagnetic-wave generating source into a processing vessel of a plasma processing apparatus, the planar antenna member comprising: a base member of a circular plate shape, made of a conductive material; and a plurality of through-holes formed in the base member of a circular plate shape, the through-holes being configured to radiate the electromagnetic waves; wherein: the through-holes include a plurality of first through-holes which are arranged on a circumference of a circle whose center corresponds to a center of the planar antenna member, and a plurality of second through-holes which are arranged concentrically with the circle outside the first through-holes; a ratio L1/r is within a range between 0.35 and 0.

Abstract: A microwave plasma processing apparatus (100) of a slot antenna type includes a plane antenna plate (31) constituting a flat waveguide and a cover (34) of a conductive member. The cover (34) is provided with a stub (43) as a second waveguide for adjusting electric field-distribution in the flat waveguide. The stub (43) is provided in the cover (34) of the conductive member. In plan view, the stub (43) is arranged to overlap slots (32) constituting a slot pair arranged at the outermost circumference of the plane antenna plate (31). By appropriately arranging the stub, it is possible to control electric field-distribution in the flat waveguide thereby to generate a uniform plasma.

Abstract: In an imaging apparatus, an imaging unit generates an acquired image of a subject. A luminance information acquirer acquires the subject's luminance information. A detector detects the subject's luminance range on the basis of the acquired luminance information. An imaging controller sets a range of exposure control values having a step that corresponds to a value obtained by multiplying the detected luminance range by a predetermined coefficient k (where 0<k<1), and then uses the imaging unit to take multiple shots (i.e., multiple imagings) set with respectively different exposure control values within the range of exposure control values. An image compositor generates a composite image by compositing image portions extracted from the plurality of images obtained via the multiple shots. When just one shot is taken, the single exposure control value set for the one shot is contained within the range of the exposure control values.

Abstract: A positive electrode for lithium secondary batteries and a lithium secondary battery are provided in which, by using an olivine Mn based positive-electrode active material and an optimal binder for the olivine Mn based positive-electrode active material, peel-off of the electrode and gelatinization of the slurry can be prevented, with large energy density, excellent in rate characteristic and cycle life. The positive electrode includes a positive-electrode composite including at least a positive-electrode active material and a binder; and a positive-electrode current collector. The positive-electrode active material includes a lithium composite oxide having an olivine-type structure, which is represented by the formula LiMnxM1?xPO4 (where 0.3?x?1 and M is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Li, Fe, Ni, Co, Ti, Cu, Zn, Mg, and Zr) . The binder includes an acrylonitrile-based copolymer.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte contains a non-aqueous solvent, a solute dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, and hydrogenated terphenyl, the solute includes a boron-containing alkali salt and a boron-free alkali salt, the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material comprising a randomly oriented carbon composite (A), and the carbon composite (A) contains a graphitic carbon substance (B) and a carbon substance (C) that is different from the graphitic carbon substance (B).

Abstract: The present invention is intended to improve load characteristics at the time of charging or discharging by assuring a lithium ion transport pathway in the crystal structure of olivine lithium-containing manganese phosphate. There is used a positive electrode active material which is a composite material comprising a material having an olivine structure and represented by Li1-y[Mn1-xMx]PzO4 (0<x?0.3, ?0.05?y<1, 0.99?z?1.03, and M includes at least one of Li, Mg, Ti, Co, Ni, Zr, Nb, Mo or W) and a carbon material, and which shows an average half width of 0.17 or more, and an intensity ratio between a diffraction line near 20° and a diffraction line near 35° of not less than 0.7 and not more than 1.0, in powder X-ray diffractometry.

Abstract: In order to facilitate designating page data, an MFP includes an operation portion to accept a user operation, the operating portion having a plurality of keys, a data acquiring portion to acquire a Web page written in a markup language, an extracting portion to extract link information included in the acquired Web page, and an assigning portion to assign to at least one of the plurality of keys an assignment command to execute a process on data stored in a link destination which is specified by the extracted link information.

Abstract: In an exposure unit including: a laser scanning unit emitting a multiple number of beams; a polygon mirror for deflecting the multiple beams by reflection with the same facet; an optical system including optical elements for leading the beams correspondingly to a multiple number of photoreceptor drums laid out along an auxiliary scan direction, the bottom of a casing of the exposure unit to which the polygon mirror and the optical elements arranged along the directions of the beams emitted from the polygon mirror are attached is constructed so that the attachment portions of individual optical elements for each beam are differentiated in thickness from the areas where no attachment portion is formed.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising a positive electrode containing a transition metal-containing composite oxide as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material allowing reversible insertion and extraction of lithium, a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains at least one additive (A) selected from the group consisting of ethylene sulfite, propylene sulfite, and propane sultone and at least one additive (B) selected from the group consisting of maleic anhydride, vinylene carbonate, vinylethylene carbonate, and LiBF4; and an end voltage of charge is 4.3 to 4.5 V.

Abstract: A negative electrode of the present invention has an active material layer composed of an intermetallic compound on a collector. The intermetallic compound is capable of occluding/desorbing lithium and contains at least one kind of element A selected from Sn, In, Ge, Ga, Pb, Al, Sb, and Si, and an element X that does not substantially react with Li. In the negative electrode, a ratio Ib/Ia of highest peak intensities Ia and Ib of X-ray diffraction peaks derived from the intermetallic compound and the element A is 0.1 or less. By configuring a non-aqueous secondary battery using the above-mentioned negative electrode, the charging/discharging efficiency and cycle characteristics of a thin film electrode used for the negative electrode of the non-aqueous secondary battery are enhanced.

Abstract: According to the present invention, highly accurate adjustment of the angles and positions of optical elements constituting an optical scanning unit can be easily performed. For a cylindrical lens that makes the light beam for exposing a photoreceptor converge on the surface of the photoreceptor, a frame is provided for holding the cylindrical lens therein. The frame is supported by two support portions for a chassis of the optical scanning unit such that the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical lens becomes parallel to the scanning direction of the photoreceptor. The optical scanning unit is configured such that the angle of the cylindrical lens in the longitudinal direction is adjustable in the sub-scanning direction of the photoreceptor at the support portion on the front side (operational side) of these support portions.

Abstract: A substrate table includes a substrate table main body provided with a heater embedded therein and having an upper surface serving as a heating face for heating a target substrate, and lifter pins inserted in the substrate table main body and configured to be moved up and down. Recessed portions are formed in the heating face of the substrate table main body at positions corresponding to the lifter pins and have a bottom lower than the heating face. Each of the lifter pins includes a lifter pin main body and a head portion formed at a distal end of the lifter pin main body and having a diameter larger than the lifter pin main body, the head portion being formed to correspond to each recessed portion and to be partly accommodated in the recessed portion. The head portion has a head portion upper end for supporting the target substrate and a head portion lower surface opposite to the head portion upper end.

Abstract: An alloy material containing an intermetallic compound of metal that is alloyed with Li and metal that is not alloyed with Li, capable of repeatedly absorbing and desorbing Li, is formed on a collector made of a material that is not alloyed with Li, as a plurality of convex portions partitioned with gaps disposed thereamong, and an area the convex portions occupy on the collector is assumed to be 60 to 95% of the area of the collector. Because of this, an electrode containing an intermetallic compound capable of repeatedly absorbing and desorbing Li can be provided, which can configure a non-aqueous secondary battery having a higher charging/discharging efficiency, a larger discharging capacity, and more excellent high rate characteristics and cycle characteristics.

Abstract: An electrode according to the invention can provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having an ability to release a volume expansion at the time of charge and discharge as well as the time of a cycle. The electrode comprises a current collector made of a material which is not alloyed with Li, and a dot pattern 2 of a metallic material able to be alloyed with Li formed on the current collector. At the time of charge, since the volume expansion of each dot 3 is carried out so as to bury adjoining crevices 4 between the dots, a stress generated is released, thereby degradation of an electrode being avoided. Each dot may also be made into porosity.

Abstract: Because of the composition represented by General Formula: Li1+x+?Ni(1?x?y+?)/2Mn(1?x?y??)/2MyO2 (where 0?x?0.05, ?0.05?x+??0.05, 0?y?0.4; ?0.1???0.1 (when 0?y?0.2) or ?0.24???0.24 (when 0.2<y?0.4); and M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Fe, Co, Cu, Zn, Al, Ge and Sn), a high-density lithium-containing complex oxide with high stability of a layered crystal structure and excellent reversibility of charging/discharging can be provided, and a high-capacity non-aqueous secondary battery excellent in durability is realized by using such an oxide for a positive electrode.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode that contains a lithium composite oxide as an active material. The cut-off voltage of charge is set to 4.25 to 4.5 V. In a region where the positive electrode and the negative electrode face each other, the Wp/Wn ratio R is in the range from 1.3 to 19 where Wp is the weight of the active material contained in the positive electrode per unit area and Wn is the weight of the active material contained in the negative electrode per unit area. This battery is excellent in safety, cycle characteristics, and storage characteristics even when the cut-off voltage of charge in a normal operating condition is set to 4.25 V or more.