Abstract: The present invention aims at providing an electrode for an electrochemical element having adequately high capacity and output. The electrode for an electrochemical element of the present invention has a feature in that a mixture containing an active material, a conduction aid and a binder is filled into continuous pores of an aluminum porous body having the continuous pores, and the content ratio of the conduction aid in the mixture is 0 to 4 mass %. Further, the electrode for an electrochemical element of the present invention has a feature in that a mixture containing an active material, a conduction aid and a binder is filled into continuous pores of an aluminum porous body having the continuous pores, and the content ratio of the binder in the mixture is less than 5 mass %.

Abstract: The present invention provides a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body in which the cell diameter of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is uneven in the thickness direction, and a current collector and an electrode respectively using the aluminum porous body, and a production method thereof. That is, such a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector has a cell diameter uneven in the thickness direction. Particularly, it is preferred that when a cross section in the thickness direction of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is divided into three regions of a region 1, a region 2 and a region 3 in this order, the average of the cell diameter in the region 1 and the cell diameter in the region 3 differs from the cell diameter in the region 2.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body which is suitably used as current collector base materials of an electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery and an electrode for a capacitor using a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, and an electrode, a capacitor and a lithium-ion capacitor, each using the sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body. For this object, the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector of the present invention is a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body, and a skeleton forming the aluminum porous body has a surface roughness (Ra) of 3 ?m or more, and preferably 3 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body which enables to produce an electrode continuously, an electrode using the aluminum porous body, and a method for producing the electrode. The present invention provides a long sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body to be used as a base material in a method for producing an electrode including at least winding off, a thickness adjustment step, a lead welding step, an active material filling step, a drying step, a compressing step, a cutting step and winding-up, wherein the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body has a tensile strength of 0.2 MPa or more and 5 MPa or less.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrode using a current collector made of an aluminum porous body which is suitably used for an electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery and an electrode for a capacitor, and a method for producing the electrode. In the current collector of the present invention, a strip-shaped compressed part compressed in a thickness direction is formed at one end part of a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body and a tab lead is bonded to the compressed part by welding. The width of the compressed part is 2 to 10 mm. Further, the electrode is formed by filling the current collector with an active material.

Abstract: Provided is a method for readily removing urethane resin without causing oxidation of aluminum, from an aluminum structure in which an aluminum film is formed on the surface of a urethane resin porous body having a three-dimensional network structure: a method for producing an aluminum porous body, including forming an aluminum film having a purity of 99.9% by mass or more on a surface of a urethane resin porous body having a three-dimensional network structure to provide an aluminum structure including the urethane resin porous body and the aluminum film, and subjecting the aluminum structure to a heat treatment at 370° C. or more and less than 660° C. in the air to remove urethane resin and to provide an aluminum porous body.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an aluminum porous body for a current collector in which electric resistivity is reduced to enhance current collecting performance, and an electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery, a capacitor and a lithium-ion capacitor each using the aluminum porous body for a current collector. Such a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body of the present invention is a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector including an electric resistivity in an in-plane direction and in a thickness direction of 0.5 m?cm or less. An electrode can be configured by using the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector, and further a nonaqueous electrolyte battery, a capacitor and a lithium-ion capacitor can be configured by using the electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode current collector for a secondary battery or the like, wherein a compressed part for attaching a tab lead to an end part of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body to be used as an electrode current collector of a secondary battery, a capacitor using a nonaqueous electrolytic solution or the like is formed, and a method for producing the same. That is, the present invention provides a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector having a compressed part compressed in a thickness direction for connecting a tab lead to its end part, wherein the compressed part is formed at a central part in the thickness direction of the aluminum porous body.

Abstract: Provided is a structure for effectively utilizing a novel metal porous body, such as an aluminum porous body, having a three-dimensional network structure as a battery electrode. An air battery that uses oxygen as a positive electrode active material includes an aluminum porous body having a three-dimensional network structure, the aluminum porous body functioning as a positive electrode collector, wherein an electrode that includes a positive electrode layer containing a catalyst and a binder and provided on a surface of a skeleton of the aluminum porous body is used. Furthermore, provided are an electrode having continuous pores in a state where a positive electrode layer is provided on a surface of a skeleton of an aluminum porous body, an electrode having a continuous hollow portion inside a skeleton thereof, and an air battery including any of the electrodes.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector which is suitably used for electrodes for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries and electrodes for capacitors, an electrode and a capacitor each using the same. The three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector of the present invention is a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector used for electrodes, and the aluminum porous body has been made to have an average cell diameter of 50 ?m or more and 1000 ?m or less in order to enhance the filling performance of an active material slurry.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector which is suitably used for electrodes for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries and electrodes for capacitors, an electrode and a capacitor each using the same. In such a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector, the aluminum porous body has been made to have a compressive strength in a thickness direction of 0.2 MPa or more in order to efficiently fill an active material into the sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body.

Abstract: Provided is electrochemical device, such as a nonaqueous electrolyte battery, which has excellent discharge characteristics and the like by forming a thick electrode using a metal porous body, such as an aluminum porous body, as a current collector. An electrode for an electrochemical device includes a metal porous body filled with an active material, in which the metal porous body is sheet-like and is a stacked porous body in which a plurality of single-layer metal porous bodies are stacked and electrically connected to each other. The metal porous body may be an aluminum porous body having a three-dimensional network structure.

Abstract: Provided is an electrochemical device which is easy to produce and which has excellent characteristics. An electrochemical device includes a first electrode including an aluminum porous body having interconnecting pores and an active material filled into the pores of the aluminum porous body, a separator, and a second electrode, the first electrode, the separator, and the second electrode being stacked, in which a plurality of electrode bodies each including the first electrode, the separator, and the second electrode are stacked without being wound.

Abstract: To provide an insulating resin film, which contains: a first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer, wherein the insulating resin film is configured to bond a substrate and an electronic part together, and the first adhesive layer is provided at a side of the substrate and the second adhesive layer is provided at a side of the electronic part, wherein the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer each contain inorganic filler, wherein the second adhesive layer has a DSC exothermic peak temperature that is higher than a DSC exothermic peak temperature of the first adhesive layer, and wherein a thickness of the first adhesive layer is 50% to 90% of a total thickness of the insulating resin film.

Abstract: Provided are a three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body in which the diameter of cells in the porous body is uneven in the thickness direction of the porous body; a current collector and an electrode each using the aluminum porous body; and methods for producing these members. The porous body is a three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body in a sheet form, for a current collector, in which the diameter of cells in the porous body is uneven in the thickness direction of the porous body. When a cross section in the thickness direction of the three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body is divided into three regions of a region 1, a region 2 and a region 3 in this order, the average cell diameter of the regions 1 and 3 is preferably different from the cell diameter of the region 2.

Abstract: A porous metal member composed of an alloy at least containing nickel and tungsten is provided. The alloy may contain 50 to 80 wt % of nickel and 20 to 50 wt % of tungsten and may further contain 10 wt % or less of phosphorus and/or 10 wt % or less of boron. Such a porous metal member can be produced by, for example, making a porous base such as a urethane foam be electrically conductive, forming an alloy film containing nickel and tungsten, then removing the porous base from the alloy film, and subsequently reducing the alloy.

Abstract: A battery electrode substrate having excellent mechanical strength and flexibility and being capable of increasing the filling density of a positive electrode active substance and, thereby, achieving a higher capacity battery, a battery electrode formed from the battery electrode substrate, and an alkaline secondary battery including the battery electrode are provided. The battery electrode substrate includes a woven or unwoven fabric and nickel for coating fibers constituting the woven or unwoven fabric, wherein the weight per area of the above-described woven or unwoven fabric is 15 g/m2 or more, and 60 g/m2 or less and the thickness of the above-described woven or unwoven fabric is 1.3 mm or more, and 3.0 mm or less. The battery electrode is formed from the battery electrode substrate, and the alkaline secondary battery includes the battery electrode.

Abstract: An actuatable knee bolster provided in an instrument panel of a vehicle to protect lower legs of an occupant seated in a front seat of the vehicle. The actuatable knee bolster includes: an opposing section opposed to the lower legs of the occupant; a driving section driving the opposing section to move toward and away from the occupant; and a shock absorbing section configured to be plastically deformed when making contact with the lower legs of the occupant. In the actuatable knee bolster, the driving section is disposed inside the shock absorbing section.

Abstract: The invention provides an ignition device which is produced without reducing its productivity, while being compact in size and enabling electric current securely to flow through electric circuits built in the ignition device. The ignition device includes a metal cup and a metal header for holding a plurality of electrode pins respectively insulated and closing the opening of the cup, and further includes, in the cup, ignition charge and an ASIC component. The ASIC component includes an ASIC and a capacitor both mounted on a substrate molded with a resin to form a resin mold, and the resin mold has at its top a heating element connected to the ASIC and further has at its bottom communication electrodes for connecting the ASIC to the electrode pins, so that the ASIC component thus constructed abuts against the header. The electrode pins and the communication electrodes are jointed to each other under pressure.

Abstract: An ignition circuit for squib for igniting a squib which has a heat producing portion that includes an electrically conductive portion and a fuel portion, and transmits a heat produced by supplying electrical current to the electrically conductive portion to the fuel portion, the circuit having an electrical current boosting device which steeply boosts electrical current supplied to the electrically conductive portion. The ignition circuit achieves electrical operation with greater reliability and less cost.