Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a cell which includes: a first step of manufacturing a core using a core manufacturing apparatus, the apparatus including a pair of winding shafts disposed with a rotation center of the apparatus interposed therebetween, the pair of winding shafts orbitally moving about the rotation center; and a second step of fabricating a laminated electrode member with a sheet-shaped positive electrode, a sheet-shaped negative electrode and a pair of sheet-shaped separators interposed thereto to be arranged alternately with the electrodes; and winding the laminated electrode member around a circumferential surface of the core. The first step includes: inserting a sheet having a higher strength than the separators between the winding shafts; orbitally moving the pair of winding shafts; and adhesively bonding or melt-bonding overlapped portions of the sheet at the winding shafts.

Abstract: An inkjet head comprises a pressure chamber; a nozzle plate including a first surface at the side of the pressure chamber, a second surface opposite to the first surface, a first nozzle formed into a frustum which penetrates the first surface and the second surface and the diameter of which decreases as it goes closer to the second surface, and a second nozzle formed into a frustum which is the same as the frustum of the first nozzle; and a driving element configured adjacent to the pressure chamber to eject droplets from the first nozzle and the second nozzle simultaneously; wherein the part of the first nozzle on the first surface is integrally connected to the part of the second nozzle on the first surface, and the part of the first nozzle on the second surface is separated from the part of the second nozzle on the second surface.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an inkjet head includes a mask part which covers a periphery of an actuator part in a state where a nozzle hole is exposed to outside and a peripheral edge part of which is opposite to an opening peripheral edge part of a frame part at other end while a gap is kept, and the gap between the peripheral edge part of the mask part and the opening peripheral edge part of the frame part at the other end is sealed with a seal agent having thermal insulation properties.

Abstract: A battery includes current collectors for electrically connecting a power generating element contained inside of a battery case to external terminals, respectively. A caulking head of a rivet for fixing the negative current collector to a cover is contained in a engagement recess which is a space inside of a engagement receiving portion in the cover. The positive current collector is caulked to the cover via a shaft of the positive external terminal. A caulking head at a tip end of the shaft is contained in the engagement recess which is a space defined inside of the engagement receiving portion. The caulking heads do not project from a lower surface of the cover, and therefore, a clearance space defined between the power generating element and the cover is set to the minimum.

Abstract: A negative lower gasket has a rib disposed along the outer periphery of a flat portion having a base of a negative current collector disposed thereat. The height of the rib is set to be more than a thickness of the negative lower gasket. The rib may be disposed only at a portion corresponding to a position where legs project from the base of the negative current collector at the outer periphery of the flat portion.

Abstract: A battery includes a cover for sealing an opening of a battery case which contains an electrode assembly therein and current collectors for electrically connecting external terminals whose at least parts are disposed outside of the cover to the electrode assembly, respectively. Gaskets are interposed between a lower surface of the cover and the current collectors, respectively. In the gasket, a caulked portion is contained in an engagement recess formed at the lower surface of the cover. In contrast, the entire gasket is contained in another engagement recess formed at the lower surface.

Abstract: A battery remaining amount detection unit includes: a voltage measurement section configured to measure a voltage of a battery; an open-circuit voltage calculation section configured to calculate an estimated open-circuit voltage; and a remaining amount detection section configured to detect a remaining amount of the battery from the estimated open-circuit voltage, in which the open-circuit voltage calculation section is configured to calculate a first voltage change amount as a voltage change amount from a no-load voltage when no load is applied to the battery and a closed-circuit voltage when a load is applied to the battery, and the open-circuit calculation section is configured to calculate the estimated open-circuit voltage based on the closed-circuit voltage of the battery and the first voltage change amount.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ink-jet head includes an insulative substrate, a nozzle plate opposed to the insulative substrate, a partition wall disposed between the insulative substrate and the nozzle plate, and including a bottom surface with a first width which is in contact with the insulative substrate, and a top surface with a second width less than the first width, which is in contact with the nozzle plate, and an adhesive which attaches the partition wall and the nozzle plate.

Abstract: A buoyancy force power generation apparatus for producing motive and electric power, includes: a system housing which is a vertically standing cylindrical tower in which a liquid is stored thereby forming a liquid section from its bottom and a gas section over the liquid section; a plurality of floatation members each being connected with one another to form a chain like moving trace within the system housing; a drive shaft having receptacle pins to engage with pins formed on the floatation members to convert an up-down movement of the floatation members to a rotational movement of the drive shaft; a gas supply opening to supply a compressed gas into a desired number of the floatation members at a lower position of the system housing; and an electric power generator connected to the drive shaft to generate electric power by utilizing the rotational movement of the drive shaft.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ink-jet head includes a piezoelectric member which forms an ink pressure chamber, an electrode disposed on a side surface of the piezoelectric member, a nozzle plate attached to the piezoelectric member and including a nozzle hole communicating with the ink pressure chamber, a surface of the nozzle plate including a top surface of the nozzle plate, and a protection film which covers the surface of the nozzle plate, a peripheral portion of an adhesion part between the piezoelectric member and the nozzle plate, and the electrode. A recess is formed in a part of the protection film covering the top surface of the nozzle plate. The part of the protection film corresponds to a peripheral area of the nozzle hole.

Abstract: An electric storage device includes: an external terminal having an exposed face exposed outside from an outer covering; a current collector disposed inside the outer covering and connected to the external terminal; and an electrode assembly disposed inside the outer covering and connected to the current collector. The electrode assembly is formed by winding sheet-shaped positive electrode and negative electrode into a flat shape with a separator interposed therebetween and housed in the outer covering so that curved portions obtained by the winding are positioned on a lid body side and a bottom face side. A lid body has an electrolyte solution filling portion that opens to a clearance formed between the curved portion of the electrode assembly and the outer covering.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ink-jet head includes a piezoelectric member which forms an ink pressure chamber, an electrode disposed on a side surface of the piezoelectric member, a nozzle plate attached to the piezoelectric member and including a nozzle hole communicating with the ink pressure chamber, a surface of the nozzle plate including a top surface of the nozzle plate, and a protection film which covers the surface of the nozzle plate, a peripheral portion of an adhesion part between the piezoelectric member and the nozzle plate, and the electrode. A recess is formed in a part of the protection film covering the top surface of the nozzle plate. The part of the protection film corresponds to a peripheral area of the nozzle hole.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an inkjet head includes a mask part which covers a periphery of an actuator part in a state where a nozzle hole is exposed to outside and a peripheral edge part of which is opposite to an opening peripheral edge part of a frame part at other end while a gap is kept, and the gap between the peripheral edge part of the mask part and the opening peripheral edge part of the frame part at the other end is sealed with a seal agent having thermal insulation properties.

Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment, there is provided an inkjet printer which causes ink to flow in a circulation path communicating from an upstream ink tank to a downstream ink tank via an inkjet head, and is able to discharge the ink, wherein the inkjet printer includes an ink temperature measuring unit adapted to measure an ink temperature in the upstream ink tank and the downstream ink tank; an ink temperature adjustment portion adapted to gradually raise the ink temperature of the upstream ink tank and the downstream ink tank; a circulation control unit adapted to circulate ink filling the circulation path in a room temperature state for a planned time; and an ink temperature control unit adapted to raise the ink temperature of the upstream ink tank and the downstream ink tank up to a preset temperature while circulating the ink after the planned time elapses.

Abstract: The metal foil of the positive electrode 1a or the negative electrode 1b in the power generating element 1 is connected along the connecting plate portion 2b which is folded, twisted, and provided in a protruding condition from the main portion 2a of the current-collector connector 2; hence the shape of the current-collector connector 2 becomes easy to form, and a battery capable of enhancing current collection efficiency, reliability and workability can be provided.

Abstract: A negative lower gasket has a rib disposed along the outer periphery of a flat portion having a base of a negative current collector disposed thereat. The height of the rib is set to be more than a thickness of the negative lower gasket. The rib may be disposed only at a portion corresponding to a position where legs project from the base of the negative current collector at the outer periphery of the flat portion.

Abstract: A battery includes a cover for sealing an opening of a battery case which contains an electrode assembly therein and current collectors for electrically connecting external terminals whose at least parts are disposed outside of the cover to the electrode assembly, respectively. Gaskets are interposed between a lower surface of the cover and the current collectors, respectively. In the gasket, a caulked portion is contained in an engagement recess formed at the lower surface of the cover. In contrast, the entire gasket is contained in another engagement recess formed at the lower surface.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes an ink jet head having a pressure chamber facing a nozzle, and an upstream port and a downstream port connected to the pressure chamber, a main tank connected to the ink jet head via the upstream port and capable of storing ink therein, and a sub-tank connected to the ink jet head via the downstream port and capable of storing ink, wherein at least when printing by ejecting ink from the nozzle, the relation between ph, r, R and Q is held to satisfy ph?{QR×(1/(1+r))}=Pn (Pn being a constant representing a proper pressure in the nozzle), where ph represents a potential pressure in the main tank as viewed from a surface of an orifice plate where the nozzle of the ink jet head is formed, R represents a total flow path resistance from the main tank to the sub-tank via the ink jet head, a ratio of a flow path resistance from the main tank to the nozzle and a flow path resistance from the nozzle to the sub-tank is expressed by 1:r, a

Abstract: A battery includes current collectors for electrically connecting a power generating element contained inside of a battery case to external terminals, respectively. A caulking head of a rivet for fixing the negative current collector to a cover is contained in a engagement recess which is a space inside of a engagement receiving portion in the cover. The positive current collector is caulked to the cover via a shaft of the positive external terminal. A caulking head at a tip end of the shaft is contained in the engagement recess which is a space defined inside of the engagement receiving portion. The caulking heads do not project from a lower surface of the cover, and therefore, a clearance space defined between the power generating element and the cover is set to the minimum.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ink-jet head includes a piezoelectric member which forms an ink pressure chamber, an electrode disposed on a side surface of the piezoelectric member, a nozzle plate attached to the piezoelectric member and including a nozzle hole communicating with the ink pressure chamber, a surface of the nozzle plate including a top surface of the nozzle plate, and a protection film which covers the surface of the nozzle plate, a peripheral portion of an adhesion part between the piezoelectric member and the nozzle plate, and the electrode. A recess is formed in a part of the protection film covering the top surface of the nozzle plate. The part of the protection film corresponds to a peripheral area of the nozzle hole.