Abstract: A visual inspection apparatus inspects a surface of a piston based on a captured image acquired by a camera and a learning result acquired by conducting machine learning using a plurality of defective product sample images, which is each generated by combining a two-dimensional image of a defect image that is generated based on a three-dimensionally pre-generated defect model with an image of the surface of the piston.

Abstract: A chain guide includes a contact guide portion that comes into contact with a chain and guides the chain, and a vibration control portion having a zero-touch surface extending along a travel line of the chain.

Abstract: A tensioner includes a movable section, a fixed section, a flat spiral spring, and a back-up spring. The movable section receives load from an entrained transmission body through a tension member. The fixed section supports the movable section so as to be capable of displacing. The flat spiral spring biases the movable section so as to resist the tension member. The flat spiral spring unwinds in a state in which there is a small inter-plate friction force in cases in which there is a large biasing force applied to the tension member to counter load acting from the tension member. The flat spiral spring winds-up in a state in which there is a large inter-plate friction force in cases in which there is a small biasing force applied to the tension member to counter load acting from the tension member. The back-up spring limits wind-up of the flat spiral spring.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolytic liquid secondary battery wherein a potential of a metal layer in an exterior body is kept high, and corrosion can be suppressed, wherein an average thickness t1 of a first part of an exterior body covering a first side surface where a negative and a positive electrode terminal of a power generation element exist is different from an average thickness t2 of a second part of the exterior body covering a second side surface that intersects the first. In plan view of the power generation element from a lamination direction, in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the electrode terminals extend, the relationship of t1<t2 is satisfied when a width of the negative electrode is larger than the positive, and in the second direction, the relationship of t1>t2 is satisfied when the width of the negative electrode is smaller than the positive.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which a potential of a metal layer in an exterior body is kept noble, and corrosion can be suppressed, including: a power generation element wherein a positive electrode and a negative electrode are opposed to each other with a separator interposed therebetween, and the negative electrode is disposed on an outer side than the positive electrode; and an exterior body which covers the power generation element, and has a metal layer and a resin layer which covers both surfaces of the metal layer, and an average thickness t1 of a first part of the exterior body which covers upper and lower surfaces of the power generation element in a lamination direction of the power generation element and an average thickness t2 of a second part of the exterior body which covers side surfaces of the power generation element satisfy a relationship of t2/t1<0.995.

Abstract: A resister clip (35) includes engage portions (35a) engaging with an engage groove, a spring portion (35b) and operating portions (35c). The spring portion (35b) can be designed with a high degree of freedom in terms of a coil number of turns, a winding diameter and others and the engage portions (35a) are widened centering on the spring portion (35b), so that diameter-widening resistance can be optimized.

Abstract: A chain guide includes a contact guide portion that comes into contact with a chain and guides the chain, and a vibration control portion having a zero-touch surface extending along a travel line of the chain.

Abstract: A tensioner including a support member, a thrust member supported so as to be capable of reciprocating movement in a straight line along a first direction with respect to the support member, and a contact-type flat spiral spring. The flat spiral spring is disposed adjacent to the thrust member in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The flat spiral spring has a coil axis direction running in a third direction orthogonal to both the first direction and the second direction and includes an inner-end portion anchored to the support member and an outer-end portion anchored to the thrust member so as to bias the thrust member in a forward-direction and so as to be wound-up by movement of the thrust member in a retraction-direction.

Abstract: A tensioner includes a movable section, a fixed section, a flat spiral spring, and a back-up spring. The movable section receives load from an entrained transmission body through a tension member. The fixed section supports the movable section so as to be capable of displacing. The flat spiral spring biases the movable section so as to resist the tension member. The flat spiral spring unwinds in a state in which there is a small inter-plate friction force in cases in which there is a large biasing force applied to the tension member to counter load acting from the tension member. The flat spiral spring winds-up in a state in which there is a large inter-plate friction force in cases in which there is a small biasing force applied to the tension member to counter load acting from the tension member. The back-up spring limits wind-up of the flat spiral spring.

Abstract: A fixed-side support arm (17) of a torsion coil spring (10) is provided with a locking portion (17a) and a pressing portion (17c). The locking portion (17a) is housed in a recessed spring housing portion (22) provided in a lever (9), and an engaging portion (22a) abuts against the locking portion (17a) to lock a biasing force of the spring. A pressing force (F) is applied to the pressing portion (17c) to remove the locking portion (17a) from the spring housing portion (22), thereby releasing the locking by the engaging portion (22a).

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery includes a current collector and an active material-containing layer disposed on the current collector. The active material-containing layer includes: a first negative electrode active material including a carbon material; a second negative electrode active material including a metal element or a metalloid element as a constituent element, the metal element or the metalloid element being capable of forming an alloy with lithium; and a binder. The first negative electrode active material contains a spherical graphite, and the binder contains an acrylic resin.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material includes: a lithium complex oxide expressed by chemical formula (1); a highly thermal conductive compound; and graphene or multilayer graphene. LixM1yM21-yO2??(1) In the formula (1), M1 is at least one metal selected from Ni, Co, and Mn, M2 is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Al, Fe, Ti, Cr, Mg, Cu, Ga, Zn, Sn, B, V, Ca, and Sr, and x and y are numbers such that 0.05?x?1.2 and 0.3?y?1.

Abstract: In this non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a positive terminal and a negative terminal extend in a first direction, protrude from a laminated cell stack, and are provided so that a center line is interposed therebetween, the center line passing through a midpoint of both ends of the laminated cell stack in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and extending in the first direction when the laminated cell stack is seen in plan view, and a first terminal with higher heat dissipation efficiency among the positive terminal and the negative terminal is provided in a location closer to the center line than a location of a second terminal with lower heat dissipation efficiency among the positive terminal and the negative terminal.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which a potential of a metal layer in an exterior body is kept noble, and corrosion can be suppressed, including: a power generation element wherein a positive electrode and a negative electrode are opposed to each other with a separator interposed therebetween, and the negative electrode is disposed on an outer side than the positive electrode; and an exterior body which covers the power generation element, and has a metal layer and a resin layer which covers both surfaces of the metal layer, and an average thickness t1 of a first part of the exterior body which covers upper and lower surfaces of the power generation element in a lamination direction of the power generation element and an average thickness t2 of a second part of the exterior body which covers side surfaces of the power generation element satisfy a relationship of t2/t1<0.995.

Abstract: The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a power generation element in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode exchange ions via an electrolyte, two terminals connected to the positive electrode and the negative electrode, respectively, and an exterior body which is formed by extending one terminal of each of the outer sides to cover the power generation element and the two terminals, and the outer circumference of which is sealed. A seal strength of the outer periphery of the exterior body is the weakest at a terminal sealing portion sandwiching the two terminals; and at least one surface of the terminal seal portion has a seal strength of 4.5 N/mm or less.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery is lithium vanadium phosphate represented by a following composition expression (1) and in which a peak intensity ((002)int/(201)int) of a (002) plane normalized with respect to a peak intensity of a (201) plane and a peak intensity ((102)int/(201)int) of a (102) plane normalized with respect to a peak intensity of the (201) plane in an X-ray diffraction pattern satisfy 0.35?(002)int/(201)int?0.53 and 0.46?(102)int/(201)int?0.63, respectively, LixVOPO4 . . . (1).

Abstract: A tensioner includes a power spring, and a backup member being in contact with the power spring and supporting the power spring by acting an urging force in a direction opposite to a radial shift of the power spring in a direction in which the power spring is wound. The power spring is unwound in a condition in which an inter-plate frictional force of the power spring is small in a case where an urging force acting from a power spring to a tension member is greater than a load acting from the tensioner arm to the power spring and the power spring is wound in a condition in which the inter-plate frictional force of the power spring is large in a case where the urging force acting from the power spring to the tension member is smaller than the load acting from the tension member to the power spring.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolytic liquid secondary battery wherein a potential of a metal layer in an exterior body is kept high, and corrosion can be suppressed, wherein an average thickness t1 of a first part of an exterior body covering a first side surface where a negative and a positive electrode terminal of a power generation element exist is different from an average thickness t2 of a second part of the exterior body covering a second side surface that intersects the first. In plan view of the power generation element from a lamination direction, in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the electrode terminals extend, the relationship of t1<t2 is satisfied when a width of the negative electrode is larger than the positive, and in the second direction, the relationship of t1>t2 is satisfied when the width of the negative electrode is smaller than the positive.

Abstract: A positive electrode includes: a positive electrode current collector; and a positive electrode active material layer disposed on the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode active material layer contains a lithium-containing transition metal oxide represented by composition formula (1) indicated below, and a compound represented by LiVOPO4. The lithium-containing transition metal oxide and the compound represented by LiVOPO4 are dispersed in the positive electrode active material layer. LitNixCoyAlzO2??(1) where 0.9?t?1.1, 0.3<x<0.99, 0.01<y<0.4, 0.001<z<0.2, and x+y+z=1.

Abstract: A tensioner includes a power spring, and a backup member being in contact with the power spring and supporting the power spring by acting an urging force in a direction opposite to a radial shift of the power spring in a direction in which the power spring is wound. The power spring is unwound in a condition in which an inter-plate frictional force of the power spring is small in a case where an urging force acting from a power spring to a tension member is greater than a load acting from the tensioner arm to the power spring and the power spring is wound in a condition in which the inter-plate frictional force of the power spring is large in a case where the urging force acting from the power spring to the tension member is smaller than the load acting from the tension member to the power spring.