Abstract: An alkaline storage battery including a strip-shaped porous metal substrate and a material mixture filled into the substrate. The substrate has an unfilled portion where the material mixture is not filled along at least one of two longitudinal sides of the substrate. The substrate has a weight per unit area of 150 to 350 g/m2. The material mixture contains an active material and an elastic polymer.

Abstract: In a rolling step of feeding an electrode hoop (1) having electrode mixture layers (3a, 3b) formed on both sides of a band-shaped core (2) made of a metal thin plate to between a pair of mill rolls (8a, 8b) for rolling, the electrode hoop (1) is fed so that side a is wound about one of the mill rolls if the electrode mixture layers (3a, 3b) of the electrode hoop (1) have different average thicknesses, where the side a is one of the electrode mixture layers of the electrode hoop (1) having the smaller average thickness and side b is the other. This realizes a method for rolling an electrode hoop capable of making a rolled flat electrode even if the electrode mixture layers on both sides of the core have respective different thicknesses.

Abstract: A nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery has a closed-end tubular container containing a spiral-shaped electrode assembly formed by winding a negative electrode (1) and a positive electrode with a separator interposed therebetween such that the outermost periphery of the assembly is the negative electrode (1), the negative electrode (1) being formed by disposing on a conductive substrate a mixture layer containing a hydrogen-absorption alloy, the positive electrode employing nickel hydroxide as an active material. In the nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery, the surface roughness of the outermost peripheral portion of the mixture layer of the negative electrode (1) which contacts an inner side wall of the closed-end tubular container is 3.5 ?m or more in terms of ten-point average roughness and is larger than the surface roughness of the other portion of the mixture layer. The reduction of oxygen gas during rapid charging is thereby facilitated without lowering the design capacity of the battery.

Abstract: An alkaline storage battery including a strip-shaped porous metal substrate and a material mixture filled into the substrate. The substrate has an unfilled portion where the material mixture is not filled along at least one of two longitudinal sides of the substrate. The substrate has a weight per unit area of 150 to 350 g/m2. The material mixture contains an active material and an elastic polymer.

Abstract: A cache system can change a cache capacity in a unit of a plurality of divided memory areas. Cache access to at least one memory area among the divided memory areas is restricted in the debug mode. Access history information concerning access in the debug mode is stored in the memory area to which the cache access is restricted.

Abstract: To provide a cache system that can dynamically change a cache capacity by memory areas divided into plural. The cache system includes a line counter that counts the number of effective lines for each memory area. The effective line is a cache line in which effective cache data is stored. Cache data to be invalidated at the time of changing the cache capacity is selected based on the number of effective lines counted by the line counter.

Abstract: A cache memory system controlled by an arbiter includes a memory unit having a cache memory whose capacity is changeable, and an invalidation processing unit that requests invalidation of data stored at a position where invalidation is performed when the capacity of the cache memory is changed in accordance with a change instruction. The invalidation processing unit includes an increasing/reducing processing unit that sets an index to be invalidated in accordance with a capacity before change and a capacity after change and requests the arbiter to invalidate the set index, and an index converter that selects either an index based on the capacity before change or an index based on the capacity after change associated with an access address from the arbiter, and the capacity of the cache memory can be changed while maintaining the number of ways of the cache memory.

Abstract: An alkaline storage battery including a strip-shaped porous metal substrate and a material mixture filled into the substrate. The substrate has an unfilled portion where the material mixture is not filled along at least one of two longitudinal sides of the substrate. The substrate has a weight per unit area of 150 to 350 g/m2. The material mixture contains an active material and an elastic polymer.

Abstract: A method for applying electrode mixture paste in which a strip of core material (1) made of porous metal sheet is driven to run along its lengthwise direction, is turned around part of the outer surface of a roll (8) immersed in the electrode mixture paste (6), and is driven forward by rotating the roll (8) so that the paste (6) is applied on both sides of the core material (1), after which the coating thickness of the paste (6) is adjusted and the coated paste (6) is dried. The roll (8) is formed with grooves (16) in the outer surface extending along the rotating direction so that the electrode mixture paste (6) that has entered between the outer surface of the roll (8) and the core material (1) is smoothly released, whereby the core material (1) is prevented from meandering and deterioration of coating precision is avoided. The invention thus realizes a method for applying electrode mixture paste that avoids deterioration of coating precision even when the paste has a high viscosity.

Abstract: A method for applying an electrode mixture paste includes: a first step of unwinding a core material (2) wound in a coil shape; a second step of applying an electrode mixture paste (5) to both sides of the core material; a third step of adjusting an application amount of the electrode mixture paste; a fourth step of drying a paste-coated sheet (6) with the electrode mixture paste applied to the both sides thereof; and a fifth step of winding the paste-coated sheet in a coil shape. In this method, in the second step, the electrode mixture paste is circulated and supplied by circulation means (9, 10), and the circulation means has a storage function (9) and a stirring function (11). The application method can achieve stable application accuracy even when a paste-coated sheet is continuously produced using a plurality of lots of electrode mixture pastes containing different types of powders having a large difference in the specific gravity.

Abstract: In a rolling step of feeding an electrode hoop (1) having electrode mixture layers (3a, 3b) formed on both sides of a band-shaped core (2) made of a metal thin plate to between a pair of mill rolls (8a, 8b) for rolling, the electrode hoop (1) is fed so that side a is wound about one of the mill rolls if the electrode mixture layers (3a, 3b) of the electrode hoop (1) have different average thicknesses, where the side a is one of the electrode mixture layers of the electrode hoop (1) having the smaller average thickness and side b is the other. This realizes a method for rolling an electrode hoop capable of making a rolled flat electrode even if the electrode mixture layers on both sides of the core have respective different thicknesses.

Abstract: A method for applying an electrode mixture paste includes: a first step of unwinding a core material (2) wound in a coil shape; a second step of applying an electrode mixture paste (5) onto the core material; a third step of adjusting an application amount of the electrode mixture paste; a fourth step of drying a paste-coated sheet (6) with the electrode mixture paste applied to the both sides thereof; and a fifth step of winding the paste-coated sheet in a coil shape. In this method, in one of the second and third steps, a core material-exposed portion (9) to which the electrode mixture paste is not applied is provided in both edge portions in a width direction of the core material, and, in the fourth step, a holding unit is provided in at least one position, the holding unit continuously holding the core material-exposed portion between a wheel type roller (10) and a contact belt (11) and changing a traveling direction of the paste-coated sheet.

Abstract: A cache system includes a tag memory having a tag indicating whether data is obtained by prefetch access, a prefetch reliability storage unit having prefetch reliability of each processor, and a tag comparator configured to compare the tag with an access address, instruct the prefetch reliability storage unit to decrease the prefetch reliability if cache miss occurs for the tag indicating the prefetch access, and erase information indicating the prefetch access and instruct the prefetch reliability storage unit to increase the prefetch reliability if cache hit occurs for the tag indicating the prefetch access.

Abstract: An electrode mixture paste (5) is applied on both sides of a strip of core material (1) as it runs along its lengthwise direction, and the coating thickness of the paste (5) is adjusted as the core material (1) coated with the paste (5) passes through a gap between a pair of scraper tools (16a, 16b). Tips (18) provided to the scraper tools (16a, 16b) scrape off the paste (5) to form a paste-coated portion of a predetermined width. The electrode mixture paste (5) scraped off with the tips (18) is returned through recesses (19) on the upstream side of the tips (18) in the running direction of the core material, so as to prevent the phenomenon where the coating thickness is increased at both side edges of the paste-coated portion. Thus, a method for applying electrode mixture paste is realized that can prevent the phenomenon where the coating thickness is increased at both side edges of the paste-coated portion and prevent process failures such as deformation of paste-coated sheet.

Abstract: An electrode mixture paste (5) is applied on both sides of a strip of core material (1) made of porous metal sheet that is running along its lengthwise direction. The paste-coated core material (1) is pressed with press rollers (15a, 15b) alternately from opposite sides once or more, after which the paste-coated core material (1) is passed through the gap between a pair of scraper tools (16a, 16b) to adjust the coating thickness of the paste (5), while the position of the core material (1) is restricted with comb-shaped projections (17a or 17a, 17b), so that, even though the projections (17a, 17b) are distanced from each other sufficiently to allow weld points of the core material (1) to pass through, the coating thickness is precisely regulated.

Abstract: A nickel hydrogen storage battery is provided which includes an electrode assembly formed by winding spirally a strip-like negative electrode (4) and a strip-like positive electrode with a separator interposed therebetween, the strip-like negative electrode (4) having a mixture layer containing a hydrogen storage alloy disposed on a core material. The electrode assembly is contained in a bottomed cylindrical container such that the negative electrode (4) forms the outermost peripheral portion. A portion corresponding to an outermost peripheral portion (5) of the negative electrode is a thin portion, and the thin portion is bent in advance in the winding direction of the electrode assembly to form an arc shape. In this manner, when the spirally wound electrode assembly is configured, the outermost peripheral portion of the negative electrode is prevented from peeling from the electrode assembly, and thus the insertability into the bottomed cylindrical container is improved.

Abstract: A protector for a wire harness. After the protector is placed onto and secured to a jig and the wire harness is wired, the wire harness will not become loose inside the protector even when the protector is removed from the jig. The protector comprises: a protector body that stores a plurality of wire harnesses, and a cover that closes off the opening section of the protector body, and boss(es), having pin holes in which jig pin(s) can be inserted, (is) are formed in the protector body. A plurality of wire harnesses are divided by the bosses as base points and guided to a plurality of guide openings that are formed on the outer edge of the protector body. The wire harnesses will not become loose inside the protector even when the protector is removed from the jig due to the bosses inside the protector.

Abstract: A data transfer apparatus has a controller configured to read out data in a predetermined sequential address area in units of a first byte count and to perform control for transferring the read-out data to a length register having a data area of a second byte count, the second byte count being the first byte count n times, where n is an integer equal to or more than “1”, a mask generator configured to generate mask information so that data already stored into the length register is not overwritten and to provide the controller with the mask information, when last data included in data in the predetermined address range read out from the memory is stored into the length register, and a bit circular configured to circulate each bit of data stored in the length register by the number of bytes in accordance with a lower side bit string of a start address of data in the predetermined address area read out from the memory.

Abstract: Novel compounds having excellent PPAR ?/? agonist effects and having desirable properties for medicaments are provided. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ?/? agonists of the general formula (I): (wherein Q is an optionally-substituted benzene or pyridine ring; R1 and R2 each are an optionally-substituted phenyl group or 5- or 6-membered aromatic heterocyclic group; X Y, and Z are independently C, O, S or N; R3 to R9 each are a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, etc.; n is an integer of 0 to 3).

Abstract: A protector for a wire harness. After the protector is placed onto and secured to a jig and the wire harness is wired, the wire harness will not become loose inside the protector even when the protector is removed from the jig. The protector comprises: a protector body that stores a plurality of wire harnesses, and a cover that closes off the opening section of the protector body, and boss(es), having pin holes in which jig pin(s) can be inserted, (is) are formed in the protector body. A plurality of wire harnesses are divided by the bosses as base points and guided to a plurality of guide openings that are formed on the outer edge of the protector body. The wire harnesses will not become loose inside the protector even when the protector is removed from the jig due to the bosses inside the protector.