Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a battery of which degrade in discharge properties caused by an anode current collector (Al current collector) is inhibited. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a battery including a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte layer arranged between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode includes an anode current collector that is an Al current collector, and an anode active material layer containing an anode active material of which reaction potential is lower than that of Al; and the anode current collector is covered with a resin coating layer containing a resin and a conductive material, and further, an intermediate layer containing the resin and the anode active material is arranged between the resin coating layer and the anode active material layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a negative electrode mixture capable of improving cycle characteristics of a secondary battery. The negative electrode mixture of the present disclosure includes active material secondary particles and a sulfide solid electrolyte, wherein the active material secondary particles include a plurality of silicon particles and a polymer binding the silicon particles, and the polymer has a property of 0.37??A/?B (wherein ?A is bending strain of molded body A, the molded body A is a molded body consisting of the polymer and the sulfide solid electrolyte and including 20% by volume of the polymer and having a filling ratio of 90%, ?B is bending strain of molded body B, and the molded body B is a molded body consisting of the sulfide solid electrolyte and having a filling ratio of 90%).

Abstract: An electrode for all-solid-state battery includes a first sulfide solid electrolyte, a second sulfide solid electrolyte, and an active material. The first sulfide solid electrolyte has an LGPS type crystal structure. The second sulfide solid electrolyte is a glass ceramic. A mass fraction of the second sulfide solid electrolyte with respect to a sum of the first sulfide solid electrolyte and the second sulfide solid electrolyte is more than 5% and 20% or less.

Abstract: Provided is an ink including a solvent, a resin, and thickening particles. The ink has a viscosity of 3.00×103 mPa·s or more and 2.50×104 mPa·s or less at 25° C. at a shear rate of 1 s?1, and a viscosity of 130 mPa·s or less at 25° C. at a shear rate of 5,000 s?1.

Abstract: A secondary battery system of the present disclosure includes a secondary battery and a heating device, wherein the secondary battery includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and one or both of the positive electrode and the negative electrode include an active material and a granulated body, the active material includes a material whose volume changes with charge and discharge of the secondary battery, the granulated body includes an inorganic solid electrolyte and an alkali metal-containing salt, and a target heated by the heating device includes the alkali metal-containing salt.

Abstract: Disclosed is an active material composite particle comprising Si and having excellent cycle characteristics. The active material composite particle of the present disclosure comprises a center portion and a surface layer portion, wherein the center portion comprises a solid electrolyte and a plurality of Si particles, the surface layer portion comprises a polymer and has a carrier ion-conductivity, and a ratio of polymer in the surface layer portion is higher than a ratio of polymer in the center portion.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery in which occurrence of short circuit is inhibited. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery including an anode including at least an anode current collector, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the anode and the cathode; wherein a protective layer containing a Mg-containing particle that contains at least Mg, and also contains a polymer, is arranged between the anode current collector and the solid electrolyte layer; and a contacting area rate in an interface between the solid electrolyte layer and the protective layer is 50% or more.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery in which occurrence of short circuit is inhibited. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising an anode including at least an anode current collector, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the anode and the cathode; wherein a protective layer containing a Mg-containing particle that contains at least Mg, and also containing a polymer, is arranged between the anode current collector and the solid electrolyte layer.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery in which occurrence of short circuit is inhibited. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising an anode including at least an anode current collector, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the anode and the cathode; wherein a protective layer containing a Mg-containing particle that contains at least Mg, and also containing a polymer, is arranged between the anode current collector and the solid electrolyte layer; the solid electrolyte layer contains a solid electrolyte in a granular shape; and when X designates an average particle size D50 of the solid electrolyte and Y designates an average thickness of the solid electrolyte layer, X/Y is 0.0125 or more and 0.02 or less.

Abstract: To reduce an electric resistance of an all-solid-state battery, the all-solid-state battery includes: an anode active material layer; a cathode active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode active material layer and the cathode active material layer, wherein the cathode active material layer contains S, Li2S, P2S5, and a single-walled carbon nanotube.

Abstract: To improve the capacity of an all-solid-state battery, a method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery having a cathode that contains sulfur include: performing initial charge and discharge separately at least in three cycles until a capacity of the battery reaches a design capacity, wherein a charge discharge capacity in a first cycle is at most 30% of the design capacity, and charge and discharge in a second cycle and after are performed, so that a charge discharge capacity in an n-th cycle is increased at least 1.15 times as much as a charge discharge capacity in an (n-1)-th cycle.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an anode layer with little resistance increase due to charge and discharge. In the present disclosure, the above object is achieved by providing an anode layer comprising: an anode active material including a Nb element, a W element, and an O element; and a solid electrolyte, and an expansion coefficient of the anode active material when charged to 200 mAh per 1 g is 1.4% or more and 5% or less.

Abstract: In the stacked battery, a short-circuit current shunt part is electrically connected to the electric elements, and an insulating layer of the short-circuit current shunt part is constituted of material having a predetermined melting point or glass transition temperature. When heat is excessively generated in the battery due to internal short circuits etc. and the temperature of the battery reaches the melting point of the insulating layer, the insulating layer melts and its shape is changed to short-circuit the short-circuit current shunt part, and current flows from the electric elements into the short-circuit current shunt part. To measure the current flowing into the short-circuit current shunt part makes it possible to easily grasp excessive heat generation of the battery to suppress deterioration of the battery due to heat generation.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a discharging head that discharges liquid onto a medium; first and second components that are operable for discharging the liquid onto the medium; first and second control circuits that control driving of the discharging head; a first control circuit board on which the first control circuit is provided; a second control circuit board on which the second control circuit is provided; wherein the first component is electrically coupled to the first control circuit, the second component is electrically coupled to the second control circuit, a minimum distance between the first control circuit board and the first component is shorter than a minimum distance between the first control circuit board and the second component, and a minimum distance between the second control circuit board and the second component is shorter than a minimum distance between the second control circuit board and the first component.

Abstract: An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer; and wherein a porosity of the PTC resistor layer is from 5% to 13%.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries which comprises a PTC resistor layer containing an insulating inorganic substance and in which electronic resistance is low. The production method is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the method is a method for producing an electrode for use in a solid-state battery comprising a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode; wherein the electrode is at least one of the cathode and the anode, and the electrode comprises a current collector, an electrode active material layer and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the current collector and the electrode active material layer.

Abstract: A drying device includes a contact heater unit to contact and heat a medium. The contact heater unit includes a plurality of heating members each having a curved contact face to contact the medium among plural heating members of the plurality of heating members to contact a first surface of the medium opposite a second surface of the medium on which liquid is applied. The plurality of heating members includes a first heating member and a plurality of second heating members. The first heating member has a maximum contact distance to contact the medium. The plurality of second heating members is disposed upstream from the first heating member in a direction of conveyance of the medium. Two heating members of the plurality of second heating members immediately upstream from the first heating member in the direction of conveyance of the medium contact the first surface of the medium.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a stacked battery in which an unevenness of short circuit resistance among a plurality of cells is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a stacked battery comprising: a plurality of cells in a thickness direction, wherein the plurality of cells are electrically connected in parallel; each of the plurality of cells includes a cathode current collector, a cathode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, an anode active material layer, and an anode current collector, in this order; the stacked battery includes a surface-side cell that is located on a surface side of the stacked battery, and a center-side cell that is located on a center side rather than the surface-side cell; and a contact resistance between the cathode current collector and the anode current collector in the surface-side cell is more than a contact resistance between the cathode current collector and the anode current collector in the center-side cell.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium by contacting a rear surface of the medium opposite a surface of the medium on which the image is formed, in which the media heater includes a contact member with a contact surface having a predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, the contact member is a roller member, and the medium closely contacts the contact surface of the contact member across an entire width of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery with good capacity property. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising a cathode layer including a composite cathode active material, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, and the composite cathode active material includes a cathode active material represented by LiaNixCoyAlzNbbO2 wherein 1.0?a?1.05, x+y+z+b=1, 0.8?x?0.83, 0.13?y?0.15, 0.03?z?0.04, 0<b?0.011; and a coating layer covering at least a part of a surface of the cathode active material and including an ion conductive oxide, and at least one of the cathode layer and the solid electrolyte layer includes a sulfide solid electrolyte.